Odour-genes covariance within a natural population of subterranean Spalax galili blind mole rats

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 483-490

  Tzur, Shay ^a   Todrank, Josephine ^a   Juergens, Andreas ^a,b   Nevo, Eviatar ^a   Heth, Giora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chemical communication; Conspecific odour discrimination; Genetic distance; Microsatellites; Relatedness coefficient

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; HABITUATION; KINSHIP; ODOR; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SPALACINAE; SPALAX GALILI;

EID: 60849126454     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01155.x     Document Type: Article

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