Do pine voles (Microtus pinetorum) use numerous types of olfactory cues to discriminate gender?

Journal of Chemical Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2147-2159

  Solomon, Nancy G ^a   Ferkin, Michael H ^b   O'Boyle, Roseanne ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conspecific odors; Habitat differences; Olfactory preferences; Rodent; Sex differences; Species differences; Vole

Indexed keywords

OLFACTORY CUE; RODENT; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; URINE; VOLE;

MICROTUS PINETORUM;

EID: 0032835395     PISSN: 00980331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021097008966     Document Type: Article

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