Behavioral discrimination between circumgenital odor from peri-ovulatory dominant and anovulatory female common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 265-284

  Smith, Tessa E ^a,c   Abbott, David H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c Disney's Animal Kingdom ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Callithrix jacchus; Chemical communication; Common marmoset; Dominance; Odor discrimination; Ovulation

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SOLVENT;

DOMINANCE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; OLFACTORY CUE; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MALE; MARMOSET; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SCENT GLAND; SECRETION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; ODORS; PROGESTERONE; SCENT GLANDS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOLVENTS;

ANIMALIA; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CALLITRICHIDAE; MARMOSETS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0031729072     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2345(1998)46:4<265::AID-AJP1>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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