Complex chemosensory control of female reproductive behaviors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Fraser, Eleanor J ^a   Shah, Nirao M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEMALE ANIMAL; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SENSORY STIMULATION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ODORS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; PHEROMONES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; TRPC CATION CHANNELS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84896496558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090368     Document Type: Article

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