Comments on recent work by Zhang and colleagues: "Uropygial gland-secreted alkanols contribute to olfactory sex signals in budgerigars"

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-4

  Mardon, Jérôme ^a,b   Saunders, Sandra M ^b   Bonadonna, Francesco ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANOL; EICOSANOL; NONADECANOL; OCTADECANOL; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PARAKEET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MELOPSITTACUS;

EID: 78650341359     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq085     Document Type: Letter

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