Socioecological and phylogenetic patterns in the chemical signals of strepsirrhine primates

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 97, Issue , 2014, Pages 249-253

  delBarco Trillo, Javier ^a   Drea, Christine M ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body odour; Chemical signal; Comparative study; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Olfactory communication; Semiochemistry; Signal evolution; Socioecology; Species difference; Strepsirrhini

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL CUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; OLFACTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; SEMIOCHEMICAL; SIGNALING; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 84908644655     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.07.009     Document Type: Article

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