Putative chemical signals about sex, individuality, and genetic background in the preputial gland and urine of the house mouse (mus musculus)

Chemical Senses

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 293-303

  Zhang, Jian Xu ^a   Rao, Xiao Ping ^b   Sun, Lixing ^c   Zhao, Cheng Hua ^a   Qin, Xiao Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

House mouse; Individual; Information coding; Mus musculus; Pheromone; Preputial gland; Sex; Strain; Urine

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BETA FARNESENE; BREVICOMIN; DICHLOROMETHANE; ESTER; HEXADECANOL; PHEROMONE; SESQUITERPENE; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PREPUTIAL GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; ORGAN SIZE; SCENT GLANDS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34247134608     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjl058     Document Type: Article

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