Artificially increasing scent mark rate increases urogenital gland size in mice Mus musculus

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 74, Issue 4-5, 2001, Pages 517-522

  Collins, Sarah A ^b   Gosling, L Morris ^a   Watkins, Richard W ^a   Cowan, Dave P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coagulating gland; Scent marking; Territorial behaviour; Testes

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TESTIS; TRAVEL; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0035851910     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(01)00590-X     Document Type: Article

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