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Volume 39, Issue 6
20 July 1956
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Article| July 20 1956

OLFACTORY PERCEPTION IN MIGRATING SALMON : I. L-SERINE, A SALMON REPELLENT IN MAMMALIAN SKIN

D. R. Idler,
D. R. Idler
From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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U. H. M. Fagerlund,
U. H. M. Fagerlund
From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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Helen Mayoh
Helen Mayoh
From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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D. R. Idler, U. H. M. Fagerlund, Helen Mayoh
From the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Received: January 25 1956
Online ISSN: 1540-7748
Print ISSN: 0022-1295
Copyright, 1956, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
1956
J Gen Physiol (1956) 39 (6): 889–892.
https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.39.6.889
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Received:
January 25 1956

The properties of a repellent for migrating salmon present in mammalian skin are discussed. l-Serine which is present in the washings of human skin has been shown to have repellent activity at extremely high dilution.

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