Relative dominance affects use of scent-marked areas in male snow voles Chionomys nivalis

Ethology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 273-285

  Luque Larena, Juan J ^a   López, Pilar ^b   Gosálbez, Joaquim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DOMINANCE; RODENT; SCENT MARKING;

CHIONOMYS; CHIONOMYS NIVALIS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036123806     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00770.x     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Constraints on the design of chemical communication systems in terrestrial vertebrates
2. Chionomys nivalis (Martins 1842)
3. Size-dependent chemosensory responses to familiar and unfamiliar conspecific faecal pellets by the Iberian rock-lizard, Lacerta monticola
4. Dominance hierarchies and the evolution of 'individual recognition'
5. Social status, activity and preputial glands of wild and domestic house mice
6. The Rodents II: Suborder Myomorpha
7. The effect of familiarity on social interactions in meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus: A laboratory and field study
8. Scent over-marking and adjacent-marking as competitive tactics used during chemical communication in voles
9. Scent marking and territoriality
10. A reassessment of the function of scent marking in territories
11. Scent-marking by resource holders: Alternative mechanisms for advertising the costs of competition
12. Avoidance of scent-marked areas depends on the intruder's body size
13. The response of subordinate male mice to scent marks varies in relation to their own competitive ability
14. Competitor assessment by scent matching: An experimental test
15. Live trapping small mammals. A practical guide
16. Individual odors among mammals: Origins and functions
17. Pattern of volatile compounds in dominant and subordinate mouse urine
18. Urine marking in populations of wild house mice Mus domesticus Rutty. I. Communication between males
19. The priming effects of urine substrate marks on interactions between male house mice, Mus musculus domesticus, Schwartz and Schwartz
20. Social interaction alters attraction to competitor's odour in the mouse Mus spretus Lataste
21. Social organization in the aboriginal house mouse, Mus spretus Lataste: Behavioural mechanisms underlying the spatial dispersion of competitors
22. Scent marks as competitive signals of mate quality
23. Salamander territoriality: Pheromonal markers as advertisement by males
24. Promotion of the Whitten effect in female mice by synthetic analogs of male urinary constituents
25. Socio-sexual olfactory preference in female mice: Attractiveness of synthetic chemosignals
26. Memory for individual scent in Hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) as assessed by habituation methods
27. How do hamsters know whose scent is on top and why should it matter?
28. Aversive potency of urine from dominant and subordinate male laboratory mice (Mus musculus): Resolution of a conflict
29. Over-marking and adjacent marking are influenced by sibship in male prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster
30. Microtus nivalis (Martins, 1842) - Schneemaus
31. Répartition et biologie du campagnol des neiges microtus nivalis martins dans la région de briançon
32. Androgens and agonistic behavior in mice: Relevance to aggression and irrelevance to avoidance-of-attack
33. Social behaviour and density regulation in the house mouse living in large enclosures
34. Iberian rock lizards (Lacerta monticola cyrem) assess conspecific information using composite signals from faecal pellets
35. Fighting rules and rival recognition reduce costs of aggression in male lizards, Podarcis hispanica
36. Social costs and development of nuptial coloration in male Psammodromus algirus lizards: An experiment
37. Tail loss consequences on habitat use by the Iberian rock lizard Lacerta monticola
38. The logic of animal conflict
39. A comparison of the effectiveness of the odors of rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus in enhancing territorial confidence
40. Chemistry of male dominance in the house mouse Mus domesticus
41. Synthetic pheromones that promote intermale aggression in mice
42. The ecology of territoriality in small mammals
43. The ecology of relationships
44. Conspecifics as cues to territory quality: A preference of juvenile lizards (Anolis aeneus) for previously used territories
45. Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching
46. Behavior
47. Variation in aggressiveness and the regulation of numbers in house mouse populations