Positive identification of the puberty-accelerating pheromone of the house mouse: The volatile ligands associating with the major urinary protein

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1432, 1999, Pages 2017-2022

  Novotny, Milos V ^a   Ma, Weidong ^a   Wiesler, Donald ^a   Žídek, Lukáš ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mouse; Puberty acceleration pheromone; Urinary protein

Indexed keywords

LIGAND; MAJOR BASIC PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PUBERTY; SEXUAL MATURATION; URINE; VOLATILIZATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0033533834     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0880     Document Type: Article

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