Male urine signals social rank in the Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus)

BMC Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Barata, Eduardo N ^a,b   Hubbard, Peter C ^a   Almeida, Olinda G ^a   Miranda, António ^a   Canário, Adelino V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TAXONOMIC RANK; TILAPIA; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINE VOLUME; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MICTURITION; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; URINE;

OREOCHROMIS MOSSAMBICUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SMELL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TILAPIA; URINATION;

EID: 38949108033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-5-54     Document Type: Article

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