Olfactory sex recognition investigated in antarctic prions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Bonadonna, Francesco ^a   Caro, Samuel P ^a,b   De L Brooke, M ^c  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIRD; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PACHYPTILA DESOLATA; PRION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PACHYPTILA DESOLATA;

PHEROMONE; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIRDS; FEMALE; MALE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PHEROMONES; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 58349117318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004148     Document Type: Article

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