Genetically-based olfactory signatures persist despite dietary variation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Kwak, Jae ^a   Willse, Alan ^b,d   Matsumura, Koichi ^a   Opiekun, Maryanne Curran ^a   Yi, Weiguang ^a,e   Preti, George ^a,c   Yamazaki, Kunio ^a   Beauchamp, Gary K ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; URINALYSIS; URINE ODOR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MAZE TEST; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SMELLING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; URINE; VOLATILIZATION;

MUS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SMELL; URINE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 56349129841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003591     Document Type: Article

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