The vomeronasal system mediates sick conspecific avoidance

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 251-255

  Boillat, Madlaina ^a   Challet, Ludivine ^a   Rossier, Daniel ^a   Kan, Chenda ^a   Carleton, Alan ^a   Rodriguez, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUS; RODENTIA;

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; SMELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; URINE; VIROLOGY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CUES; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RODENT DISEASES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; URINE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84921435052     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.061     Document Type: Article

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