Effect of vomeronasal organ removal on male socio-sexual response to female in a prosimian primate (Mircocebus murinus)

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1003-1008

  Aujard, F ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Ecologie Generale   (France)

Author keywords

Olfaction; Primate; Sexual behaviour; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SMELLING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

MICROCEBUS MURINUS;

EID: 0030821643     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00206-0     Document Type: Article

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