Individual Recognition: Mice, MUPs and the MHC

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Cotton, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR URINARY PROTEINS; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MICE; PROTEINS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

MUS;

EID: 36048935624     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.09.024     Document Type: Short Survey

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