Monitoring potential semiochemicals in individual mouse urine samples

Chemoecology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 139-146

  Kayali Sayadi, M N ^a   Polo Diez, L M ^a   Salazar, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Faculty of Sciences   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography; Metabolites; Mouse urine

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944432368     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-005-0305-9     Document Type: Article

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