The reactivity of neonatal rabbits to the mammary pheromone as a probe for viability

Animal

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1026-1032

  Coureaud, G ^a   Fortun Lamothe, L ^b   Langlois, D ^a   Schaal, B ^a  

^a CENTRE DES SCIENCES DU GOÛT ET DE L ALIMENTATION   (France)

^b GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Growth; Mother young relationships; Pheromones; Rabbits; Viability

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MODULATION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SUCKING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 34547796861     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731107000389     Document Type: Article

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