The phrase "a pheromone released by" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or descriptive contexts when discussing the release of pheromones by organisms, such as animals or plants.
Example: "The study focused on a pheromone released by the female moth to attract male moths during mating season."
Alternatives: "a pheromone emitted by" or "a pheromone secreted by".
Males depend on mucus in their trunks to detect a pheromone released by ready females.
Rather than head back to their own birth streams, like salmon, lampreys sniff out tiny concentrations of a pheromone released by larvae.
Recently, Mangiamele et al. (Mangiamele et al., 2013) showed that exposure of male goldfish to androstenedione, a pheromone released by males and females, inhibits social approaches towards other males and increases AVT gene expression in the POA.
Using elegant multidisciplinary approaches, including behavioral assays, GCMS chemical analysis, electrophysiological recording and fly genetics, the authors identified 9-tricosene as a likely aggregation pheromone released by male flies in response to food odors and Or7a as the olfactory receptor that detects the pheromone.
Bombykol is the first identified pheromone released by female silkworms to attract its mating partner (Zhou et al. 2009).
δ k, i, j) is the pheromone released by the ant k on the trail (i, j).
The paper was replaced between consecutive tests and the boxes wiped first with soapy water and then ethanol to remove any pheromones released by previous crickets.
Probing the possibility that species of the Urbanus bernikerni complex differ in communicative characters, such as ultraviolet reflectance patterns of the wings or pheromones released by a secondary sex character on the forewing of males, was beyond the scope of our study.
Pheromones released by one type of cell bind to a specific receptor of the other type.
It had no conception of defeat, but the nest interior was filled with the odor of alarm and recruitment pheromones released by both sides during the attempted Streamsider break-in.
Sensing of pheromones released by the opposite type causes several regulation processes that prepare the cells for mating.
