Impaired discrimination of and aversion to parasitized male odors by female oxytocin knockout mice

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 220-230

  Kavaliers, M ^a   Colwell, D D ^b   Choleris, E ^c,d   Agmo A ^e   Muglia, L J ^f   Ogawa, S ^c   Pfaff, D W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Individual recognition; Lice; Mate choice; Odor cues; Parasite avoidance; Predator responses; Predator prey; Social memory; Stress induced analgesia

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ALLELE; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LOUSE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITOSIS; POLYPLAX SERRATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANOPLURA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ODORS; ORCHIECTOMY; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; PHTHIRAPTERA; POLYPLAX; POLYPLAX SERRATA;

EID: 0041967455     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1601-183X.2003.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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