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IT was our aim to introduce, for a class of substances, a scientific term of international usefulness. Based on a clear definition, it should be a short word easily pronounced in many languages. This is not the case with ‘pherormone’. It must be admitted that the derivation of ‘pheromone’ from hormān is questionable. We would therefore not insist on it ; but we regard the ending ‘mone’ as a proper suffix which is used in hormone, gamone, termone and pheromone.
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KARLSON, P., LÜSCHER, M. The Proposed Biological Term ‘Pheromone’. Nature 183, 1835 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831835b0
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