More research is necessary to be sure, but Touhara says this is the first time a sex pheromone has potentially been identified in a primate.

虽然需要更多研究来确认，但前原诚司说这是首次在灵长类动物身上发现性信息素的可能。

So B.O. is a ripe area to look for potential sex pheromones.

所以 B.O.是寻找潜在性信息素的成熟区域。

So, naturally, scientists have wondered whether humans have sex pheromones too… but there’s not any really good evidence that they exist.

因此， 很自然地，科学家们想知道人类是否也有性信息素… … 但没有任何真正好的证据表明它们存在。

Since only pregnant women make EST, the idea that it – or AND, for that matter – could be a sex pheromone is controversial.

由于只有孕妇会产生 EST，因此关于它——或 AND，就此而言——可能是性信息素的想法是有争议的。

And one of the chemicals also acts as a sex pheromone in two different types of insects—which means that these kinds of long-chain fatty aldehydes are likely used widely throughout the animal kingdom for social communication.

其中一种化学物质还在两种不同类型的昆虫中充当性信息素——这意味着这些长链脂肪醛可能在整个动物王国中广泛用于社会交流。