Smelling right: The scent of male lemurs advertises genetic quality and relatedness

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3225-3233

  Charpentier, Marie J E ^a,b   Boulet, Marylène ^a   Drea, Christine M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Genetic compatibility; Heterozygosity; Olfactory communication; Semiochemical; Sexual selection; Strepsirrhine primate

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSIMIAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HETEROZYGOTE; LEMUR; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL;

LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 47749133732     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03831.x     Document Type: Article

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