Mice recognize recent urine scent marks by the molecular composition

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 655-663

  Cavaggioni, Andrea ^a   Mucignat caretta, C ^a   Redaelli, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavior; Mouse; Olfaction; Scent; Time

Indexed keywords

4 ETHYLPHENOL; BREVICOMIN; LINALOOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FECES ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SNIFFING; TERRITORIALITY; TIME; URINE ODOR;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MALE; MICE; MONOTERPENES; SMELL; TERRITORIALITY; THIAZOLES; TIME FACTORS; URINALYSIS; URINE;

MUS; PUNCTUM MINUTISSIMUM;

EID: 53149101732     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjn035     Document Type: Article

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