Urinary volatile compounds differ across reproductive phenotypes and following aggression in male Siberian hamsters

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 164, Issue , 2016, Pages 58-67

  Rendon, Nikki M ^a   Soini, Helena A ^a   Scotti, Melissa Ann L ^a   Novotny, Milos V ^a   Demas, Gregory E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Mammalian semiochemicals; Olfactory communication; Scent marking; Stir bar sorptive extraction

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; AMIDE; BENZOIC ACID; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DECANAL; ESTER; GERANYLACETONE; INDOLE; LIMONENE; M CYMENE; NONANAL; O CYMENE; PALMITIC ACID; PARA CYMENE; PERILLINE; PYRAZINE DERIVATIVE; TERPENE; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE AGENT; KETONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBERIAN HAMSTER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STIR BAR SORPTIVE EXTRACTION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; HAMSTER; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PHODOPUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; URINE;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; KETONES; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; PYRAZINES; REPRODUCTION; TESTOSTERONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84971343053     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.05.034     Document Type: Article

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