Are oestrus odours species specific?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 169-172

  Rampin, Olivier ^a   Jérôme, Nathalie ^a   Briant, Christine ^b   Boué, Franck ^c   Maurin, Yves ^a  

^a INRA   (France)

^b UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^c Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

Faeces; Fox; Freezing; Hormonal status; Horse; Penile erection; Rat; Sex behaviour

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS; FECES; FEMALE; FOX; FREEZING; HORSE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CUES; ESTRUS; FECES; FEMALE; FOXES; HORSES; MALE; ODORS; PENILE ERECTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745953349     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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