AmiGO 2: Term Details for "olfactory sociosexual communication" (GO:0120318)

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Accession: GO:0120318
Name: olfactory sociosexual communication
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The use of external chemical cues called pheromones to send social and sexual information between members of the same species, leading to specific behavioral responses. Pheromones may be detected by two olfactory sensory circuits, the main olfactory pathway and the vomeronasal system. Source: GOC:krc, PMID:17935991
Comment: Behavior such as predation which involves members of different species is not social. Communication between members of different species is also not social behavior.
History: See term history for GO:0120318 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to olfactory sociosexual communication (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to olfactory sociosexual communication (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for olfactory sociosexual communication (excluding "regulates").

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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0032501 multicellular organismal process
GO:0007610 behavior
GO:0051703 biological process involved in intraspecies interaction between organisms
GO:0120318 olfactory sociosexual communication

Parents of olfactory sociosexual communication (GO:0120318)

subject	relation	object
olfactory sociosexual communication	RO:0002162	Metazoa (NCBITaxon:33208)
olfactory sociosexual communication	is_a	biological process involved in intraspecies interaction between organisms (GO:0051703)
olfactory sociosexual communication	is_a	behavior (GO:0007610)

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