Integrated action of pheromone signals in promoting courtship behavior in male mice

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Haga Yamanaka, Sachiko ^a   Ma, Limei ^a   He, Jie ^a,d   Qiu, Qiang ^a   Lavis, Luke D ^b   Looger, Loren L ^b   Yu, C Ron ^a,c  

^a STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ESTROGEN; PHEROMONE; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOMERONASAL RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; ESTRUS; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTOMETRY; OVARIECTOMY; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULATION; URINALYSIS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84905159397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.03025.001     Document Type: Article

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