Freezing urine reduces its efficacy for eliciting ultrasonic vocalizations from male mice

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 96, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 602-605

  Hoffmann, Frauke ^a,b   Musolf, Kerstin ^a   Penn, Dustin J ^a  

^a KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR ETHOLOGY   (Austria)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical communication; Familiarity; Mus musculus; Ultrasonic vocalizations; Urine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FREEZING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRASOUND; URINE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FREEZING; MALE; MICE; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; ULTRASONICS; URINE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 60249096240     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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