'Microsmatic' primates revisited: Olfactory sensitivity in the squirrel monkey

Chemical Senses

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-53

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Seibt, Alexandra ^a   Weber, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CINEOLE; HEPTANOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HEXANOIC ACID; PENTANOL; PENTYL ACETATE; PROPIONIC ACID; VALERIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SQUIRREL MONKEY;

EID: 0033961970     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/25.1.47     Document Type: Article

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