Anal gland secretion codes for relatedness in the beaver, Castor canadensis

Ethology

Volumn 104, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 917-927

  Sun, Lixing ^a,b   Müller Schwarze, Dietland ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; RELATEDNESS; RODENT;

CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTOR FIBER; RODENTIA;

EID: 0345698830     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1998.tb00041.x     Document Type: Article

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