Food deprivation suppresses a preference for the top-scent mark of an over-mark in meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus)

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 480-486

  Pierce, Andrew A ^a   Vaughn, Ashlee A ^a   Ferkin, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONSPECIFIC; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MATE ATTRACTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RODENT; SCENT MARKING;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 34247153004     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01338.x     Document Type: Article

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