Encoding choosiness: Female attraction requires prior physical contact with individual male scents in mice

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1644, 2008, Pages 1727-1735

  Ramm, Steven A ^a   Cheetham, Sarah A ^a   Hurst, Jane L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual recognition; Mate choice; Mus musculus domesticus; Scent communication; Sex recognition; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; OLFACTORY CUE; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RODENT; SCENT MARKING; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEXUAL SELECTION; URINE;

MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 45249103705     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0302     Document Type: Article

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