The instinctive and species-specific behavioural response of animals to pheromones has
intrigued biologists for a long time. Recent molecular and electrophysiological approaches …

Several developments during the past 15 years have profoundly affected our understanding
of the vomeronasal system (VNS) of vertebrates. In the mid 1990s, the vomeronasal …

The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis
that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a …

The ability to recognize individuals is essential to many aspects of social behaviour, such as
the maintenance of stable social groups, parent–offspring or mate recognition, inbreeding …

In recent years, considerable progress has been achieved in the comprehension of the
profound effects of pheromones on reproductive physiology and behavior. Pheromones …

Many mammals use scent marks to advertise territory ownership, but only recently have we
started to understand the complexity of these scent signals and the types of information that …

Scent-marking is a ubiquitous form of olfactory signaling in male mammals and both
territorial males in resource-defense mating systems and dominant males in dominance …

Mammalian urine releases complex mixtures of volatile compounds that are used in
reproduction, territoriality and conspecific recognition. To understand how such complex …

Highlights•We describe a novel paradigm to study the temporal dynamics of mouse
dominance hierarchies.•Mice reliably form significantly linear and stable dominance …

The isoprenoid biosynthetic pathway is the source of a wide array of products. The pathway
has been highly conserved throughout evolution, and isoprenoids are some of the most …