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ecological ectocrine (medicine)


ecological ectocrine


A chemical substance that undergoes biosynthesis in one species and that exerts an effect on the function of another species through mechanisms of the external environment; e.g., the biosynthesis of vitamins by ruminants and their subsequent ingestion by other animals.

See: ectohormone.