Relatedness communicated in lemur scent

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 769-777

  Morelli, Toni Lyn ^a,f   Hayes, R Andrew ^b,f   Nahrung, Helen F ^c   Goodwin, Thomas E ^d   Harelimana, Innocent H ^d   MacDonald, Laura J ^d   Wright, Patricia C ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^d HENDRIX COLLEGE   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments at Centre ValBio   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Chemical communication; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC MS); Kin recognition; Madagascar; Strepsirrhini

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DIET; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; KIN SELECTION; ODOR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMATE; RELATEDNESS; SAMPLING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETICS; LEMURIDAE; MADAGASCAR; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SCENT GLAND;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEMUR; MADAGASCAR; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHEROMONES; SCENT GLANDS;

MADAGASCAR; RANOMAFANA NATIONAL PARK;

LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; PROPITHECUS; PROPITHECUS EDWARDSI; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 84880712962     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-013-1074-x     Document Type: Article

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