Vomeronasal organ removal blocks pheromonal induction of estrus in gray short-tailed opossums (Monodelphis domestica)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 506-512

  Jackson, Leslie M ^a   Harder, John D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROGENITAL SINUS; UTERUS WEIGHT; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; DENERVATION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; NASAL SEPTUM; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OPOSSUMS; ORGAN SIZE; PHEROMONES; UTERUS;

EID: 0030033191     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod54.2.506     Document Type: Article

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