Pheromones: Behavioral and Biochemical Aspects

Drickamer, Lee C.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-73827-2_7

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“…The present study demonstrated that C57 as well as CD-1 mice display good social recognition as indexed by scent marking behavior. As olfaction is the primary sensory modality of mice, and mice use scent marks to communicate with conspecifics [12,19,45], scent marking may provide a particularly relevant situation for evaluation of social communication in mice, including specific behaviors that may be responsive to factors related to social psychopathologies [8,23]. The total number of urine marked squares for (a) C57 males exposed to CD-1 males (experiment 1); (b) CD-1 males exposed to CD-1 or a C57 male (experiment 2); (c) CD-1 males exposed to CD-1 males (experiment 2); and (d) C57 males (experiment 3).…”

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A new test paradigm for social recognition evidenced by urinary scent marking behavior in C57BL/6J mice

Arakawa

Blanchard

et al. 2008

Behavioural Brain Research

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Olfaction is a major sensory element in intraspecies recognition and communication in mice. The present study investigated scent marking behaviors of males of the highly inbred C57BL/6J (C57) strain in order to evaluate the ability of these behaviors to provide clear and consistent measures of social familiarity and response to social signals. C57 males engage in scent marking when placed in a chamber with a wire mesh partition separating them from a conspecific. Male mice (C57 or outbred CD-1 mice) showed rapid habituation of scent marking (decreased marking over trials) with repeated exposure at 24-hr intervals, to a stimulus animal of the C57 or CD-1 strains, or to an empty chamber. Subsequent exposure to a genetically different novel mouse (CD-1 after CD-1 exposure, or CD-1 after C57 exposure) or to a novel context (different shaped chamber) produced recovery of marking, while responses to a novel but genetically identical mouse (C57 after C57 exposure) or to the empty chamber did not. This finding demonstrated that male mice differentiate familiar and novel conspecifics as expressed by habituation and recovery of scent marking, but neither C57 or CD-1 mice can differentiate new vs. familiar C57 males; likely due to similarities in their odor patterns. The data also indicate that scent marking can differentiate novel from familiar contexts.

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A new test paradigm for social recognition evidenced by urinary scent marking behavior in C57BL/6J mice

Arakawa

Blanchard

et al. 2008

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…This definition has been criticized by mammalian and fish biologists for being too vague and general (Liley 1982, Drickamer 1989 . However, recent findings on chemical signals in fish provide compelling reason to use the original definition (Sorensen 1992) .…”

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Mature males of Arctic charr,Salvelinus alpinus, release F-type prostaglandins to attract conspecific mature females and stimulate their spawning behaviour

Sveinsson

Hara

1995

Environ Biol Fish

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SynopsisWe examined the behavioural and biological functions of prostaglandins (PG) of F-type as a chemosensory signal during spawning in Arctic charr . Immunoassay revealed F-type PGs in water inhabited by ripe charr of both sexes performing spawning-related acts . High concentrations of immunoreactive PGFs seemed to coincide with male spawning activity. Ripe isolated males were more odorous to other charr (as assayed by EOG) than either females or immature charr . When these males received chemical cues from ovulated females, they increased their release of odorants, including F-type PGs, into the water . PGF 2a at concentrations of 0 .1 nM attracted ovulated females and ripe males . It also stimulated digging behaviour in mature females . It is concluded that F-type PGs or their derivatives are released by ripe males on the spawning grounds to attract females and elicit their spawning behaviour .

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“…For example, meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, and golden hamsters, Mesocricetus auratus, both have at least five different sources of individually or sexually distinctive odors (Ferkin & Johnston, 1995a; Johnston, Derzie, Chiang, Jernigan, & Lee, 1993). Animals also use these same signals to identify attributes about individuals, such as their age, sex, reproductive condition, diet, degree of relatedness, and social status (Drickamer, 1989; Eisenberg & Kleiman, 1972; Ferkin & Johnston, 1995a, 1995b; Ferkin, Sorokin, Johnston, & Lee, 1997; Hurst, 1990; Tang-Martinez, Mueller, & Taylor, 1993). In mammals, many of these signals tend to be scents that are deposited by animals as scent marks (Ewer, 1968; Ferkin, Burda, O'Connor, & Lee, 1995; Johnston, 1983; Thiessen & Rice, 1976).…”

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What kind of information do meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) use to distinguish between the top and bottom scent of an over-mark?

Ferkin

Dunsavage²,

Johnston³

1999

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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This study investigated how voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) determine which scent is the top scent of an over-mark and how this information influences memory for the top scent. This series of experiments shows that a region of overlap is necessary for both a preference and a differential memory for 1 of the 2 scents, and a difference in the area covered by one of the two overlapping scents is not sufficient by itself to cause these effects. These results suggest that voles have specialized perceptual and evaluative mechanisms for the analysis of scent over-marks. Thus, voles may attach a greater importance to the odor of the top-scent donor than that of the bottom-scent donor of an over-mark.Animals often have to deal with a complex array of social signals to differentiate between conspecifics. For example, meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, and golden hamsters, Mesocricetus auratus, both have at least five different sources of individually or sexually distinctive odors (Ferkin

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Pheromones: Behavioral and Biochemical Aspects

Cited by 6 publications

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A new test paradigm for social recognition evidenced by urinary scent marking behavior in C57BL/6J mice

A new test paradigm for social recognition evidenced by urinary scent marking behavior in C57BL/6J mice

Mature males of Arctic charr,Salvelinus alpinus, release F-type prostaglandins to attract conspecific mature females and stimulate their spawning behaviour

What kind of information do meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) use to distinguish between the top and bottom scent of an over-mark?

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