Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 10 (eBook)

PREFACE 5
CONTENTS 7
THIRTY YEARS ON THE ODOR TRAIL: FROM THE FIRST TO THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CHEMICAL SIGNALS IN 13
PHEROMONES: CONVERGENCE AND CONTRASTS IN INSECTS AND VERTEBRATES 19
THE DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERISATION OF SPLENDIPHERIN, THE FIRST ANURAN SEX PHEROMONE 33
CHEMICALLY MEDIATED MATE RECOGNITION IN THE TAILED FROG ( ASCAPHUS TRUEI) 36
RESPONSES TO SEX- AND SPECIES- SPECIFIC CHEMICAL SIGNALS IN ALLOPATHIC AND SYMPATRIC SALAMANDER SPECIES 44
THE PHEROMONAL REPELLING RESPONSE IN RED- SPOTTED NEWTS ( NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS) 54
THE EFFECTS OF CLOACAE SECRETIONS ON BROWN TREE SNAKE BEHAVIOR 61
SPECIES AND SUB- SPECIES RECOGNITION IN THE NORTH AMERICAN BEAVER 68
SELF- GROOMING IN MEADOW VOLES 76
PROTEIN CONTENT OF MALE DIET DOES NOT INFLUENCE PROCEPTIVE OR RECEPTIVE BEHAVIOR IN FEMALE MEADOW VOLES, MICROTUS PENNSYL VANICUS 82
THE SIGNALLING OF COMPETITIVE ABILITY BY MALE HOUSE MICE 89
A POSSIBLE FUNCTION FOR FEMALE ENURINATION IN THE MARA, DOLICHOTIS PATAGONUM 101
THE EVOLUTION OF PERFUME- BLENDING AND WING SACS IN EMBALLONURID BATS 105
BEHAVIORAL RESPONSIVENESS OF CAPTIVE GIANT PANDAS ( AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA) TO SUBSTRATE ODORS FROM CONSPECIFICS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX 113
CHEMICAL SIGNALS IN GIANT PANDA URINE ( AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA) 122
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION OF MUSTH IN CAPTIVE MALE ASIAN ELEPHANTS, Elephas maximus 130
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF PREOVULATORY FEMALE AFRICAN ELEPHANT URINE: A SEARCH FOR PUTATIVE PHEROMONES 140
THE GLAND AND THE SAC - THE PREORBITAL APPARATUS OF MUNTJACS 164
THE CHEMISTRY OF SCENT MARKING IN TWO LEMURS: Lemur catta and Propithecus verreauxi coquereli 171
SOILED BEDDING FROM GROUP- HOUSED FEMALES EXERTS STRONG INFLUENCE ON MALE REPRODUCTIVE CONDITION 180
THE ROLE OF THE MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX IN SCENT COMMUNICATION 185
CHARACTERISATION OF PROTEINS IN SCENT MARKS: PROTEOMICS MEETS SEMIOCHEMISTRY 195
THE " SCENTS" OF OWNERSHIP 211
THE ROLE OF SCENT IN INTER- MALE AGGRESSION IN HOUSE MICE & LABORATORY MICE
CHEMICAL SIGNALS AND VOMERONASAL SYSTEM FUNCTION IN AXOLOTLS ( AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM) 228
FROM THE EYE TO THE NOSE: ANCIENT ORBITAL TO VOMERONASAL COMMUNICATION IN TETRAPODS? 240
PREY CHEMICAL SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN THE VOMERONASAL SYSTEM OF GARTER SNAKES 254
MODE OF DELIVERY OF PREY- DERIVED CHEMOATTRACTANTS TO THE OLFACTORY AND VOMERONASAL EPITHELIA RESULTS IN DIFFERENTIAL FIRING OF MITRAL CELLS IN THE MAIN AND ACCESSORY OLFACTORY BULBS OF GARTER SNAKES 268
COMMUNICATION BY MOSAIC SIGNALS: Individual recognition and underlying neural mechanisms 281
SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN THE ACCESSORY OLFACTORY BULB AND VOMERONASAL ORGAN OF THE GRAY SHORT- TAILED OPOSSUM, MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA 295
THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF ODOR- BASED SEXUAL 303
RETENTION OF OLFACTORY MEMORIES BY NEWBORN INFANTS 312
HUMAN SWEATY SMELL DOES NOT AFFECT WOMEN'S MENSTRUAL CYCLE 320
LOCAL PREDATION RISK ASSESSMENT BASED ON LOW CONCENTRATION CHEMICAL ALARM CUES IN PREY FISHES: EVIDENCE FOR THREAT-SENSITIVITY 325
LEARNED RECOGNITION OF HETEROSPECIFIC ALARM CUES BY PREY FISHES: A CASE STUDY OF MINNOWS AND STICKLEBACK 333
THE RESPONSE OF PREY FISHES TO CHEMICAL ALARM CUES: WHAT RECENT FIELD EXPERIMENTS REVEAL ABOUT THE OLD TESTING PARADIGM 340
RESPONSE OF JUVENILE GOLDFISH ( CARASSIUS AURATUS) TO CHEMICAL ALARM CUES: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESPONSE INTENSITY, RESPONSE DURATION, AND THE LEVEL OF PREDATION RISK 346
THE EFFECTS OF PREDATION ON PHENOTYPIC AND LIFE HISTORY VARIATION IN AN AQUATIC VERTEBRATE 354
NOCTURNAL SHIFT IN THE ANTIPREDATOR RESPONSE TO PREDATOR- DIET CUES IN LABORATORY AND FIELD TRIALS 361
DECLINE IN AVOIDANCE OF PREDATOR CHEMICAL CUES: HABITUATION OR BIORHYTHM SHIFT? 377
CHEMICALLY MEDIATED LIFE- HISTORY SHIFTS IN EMBRYONIC AMPHIBIANS 385
LATENT ALARM SIGNALS: ARE THEY PRESENT IN VERTEBRATES? 393
BLOOD IS NOT A CUE FOR POSTSTRIKE TRAILING IN RATTLESNAKES 401
RATTLESNAKES CAN USE AIRBORNE CUES DURING POST- STRIKE PREY RELOCATION 409
THE SENSE OF SMELL IN PRO CELL ARIIFORMS An overview and new directions 415
COTTONTAILS AND GOPHERWEED: ANTI- FEEDING COMPOUNDS FROM A SPURGE 421
INDEX 429