Wake up and smell the conflict: Odour signals in female competition

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1631, 2013, Pages

  Stockley, Paula ^a   Bottell, Lisa ^a   Hurst, Jane L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical communication; Competitive signalling; Major urinary proteins; Mus musculus domesticus; Sexual selection; Social competition

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CORRELATION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; ODOR; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING;

MAJOR URINARY PROTEINS; PROTEIN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPETITIVE SIGNALLING; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL COMPETITION;

CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION; COMPETITIVE SIGNALLING; MAJOR URINARY PROTEINS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL COMPETITION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84886503603     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0082     Document Type: Article

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