Fishy Aroma of Social Status: Urinary Chemo-Signalling of Territoriality in Male Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Martinovic Weigelt, Dalma ^a   Ekman, Drew R ^b   Villeneuve, Daniel L ^b   James, Channing M ^a   Teng, Quincy ^b   Collette, Timothy W ^b   Ankley, Gerald T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; BILE ACID; TRIMETHYLAMINE; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROMA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SPERM; TERRITORIALITY; URINARY EXCRETION; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINE; URINE VOLUME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLOME; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; TERRITORIALITY; URINATION; URINE;

PIMEPHALES PROMELAS;

EID: 84868688891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046579     Document Type: Article

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