Attempts on the Sythesis of the Pheromone Component Lineatin

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INTRODUCTION

1.1 Pheromones and related compounds It has long been known that animals communicate with each other. The communication becomes more important the more social the animal is. Even in microorganisms and plants communication seems important. For example, "biological communication" as broadly defined, 1 involves the release of one or more stimuli by an individual of a species to induce a reaction to the receiver and the benefit of such a reaction may be to the emitter, the receiver or both. The main ways of animal communication are chemical (olfactory or gustatory) , mechanical (tactile or sonic) and radioti.onal (light perception or visual) ; among which chemical communication seems to be the most general, and it has been studied extensively in the last 20 years. 
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