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Urinary volatile compounds differ across reproductive phenotypes and following aggression in male Siberian hamsters.
Physiology & behavior - 1 Oct 2016
Rendon Nikki M, Soini Helena A, Scotti Melissa-Ann L, Novotny Milos V, Demas Gregory E
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Chemical communication plays an integral role in social behavior by facilitating social encounters, allowing for the evaluation of social partners, defining territories and advertising information such as species and sex. Odors provide information about the social environment for rodents and other mammals; however, studies identifying chemical compounds and their functions have thus far focused primarily on a few...
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