Preferences of newborn mice for odours indicating closer genetic relatedness: Is experience necessary?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1576, 2005, Pages 2083-2088

  Todrank, Josephine ^a,b   Busquet, Nicolas ^a   Baudoin, Claude ^a   Heth, Giora ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Genetic relatedness; Kin recognition; Newborn mice; Odour preferences

Indexed keywords

ODOR; RECOGNITION; RELATEDNESS; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; LACTATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

RODENTIA;

EID: 26244436677     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3187     Document Type: Article

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