The structure and usage of female and male mouse ultrasonic vocalizations reveal only minor differences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Hammerschmidt, Kurt ^a   Radyushkin, Konstantin ^b,c   Ehrenreich, Hannelore ^b   Fischer, Julia ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; ULTRASONIC VOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

MUS;

EID: 84863992206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041133     Document Type: Article

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