Chemical communication and mother-infant recognition

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-281

  Vaglio, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC MS); Mother recognition; Offspring identification; Putative human pheromones; Solid phase micro extraction (SPME); Volatile compounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953716914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.3.8227     Document Type: Article

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