Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Intra-specific Communication in Non-Human Vertebrates

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Perspectives on Chemical Signals Conveying Information in Rodents

      • Michael H. Ferkin

      Pages 3-12

   3. Latrines as Potential Communication Centres in Short-Beaked Echidnas

      • Rachel L. Harris, Jenny Sprent, Stewart C. Nicol

      Pages 13-26

   4. Do Urinary Volatiles Carry Communicative Messages in Himalayan Snow Leopards [Panthera uncia, (Schreber, 1775)]?

      • Subhadeep Das, Sourav Manna, Sandipan Ray, Payel Das, Upashna Rai, Biswatosh Ghosh et al.

      Pages 27-37

   5. Encoded Information Within Urine Influences Behavioural Responses Among European Badgers (Meles meles)

      • Tanesha M. Allen, Nadine A. Sugianto, Charlotte Ryder, Chris Newman, David W. Macdonald, Christina D. Buesching

      Pages 38-59

   6. LPS-Induced Immune System Stimulation Alters Urinary Volatiles and Behaviour in Growing Pigs

      • Sankarganesh Devaraj, Anoosh Rakhshandeh, Edgar Aviles-Rosa, John J. McGlone

      Pages 60-70

   7. A Field Study of Wild Echidna Responses to Conspecific Odour

      • Rachel L. Harris, Elissa Z. Cameron, Stewart C. Nicol

      Pages 71-80

   8. How Diet Affects Vertebrate Semiochemistry

      • Jan Havlíček, Jitka Fialová, S. Craig Roberts

      Pages 81-93

   9. The Social Function of Latrines: A Hypothesis-Driven Research Approach

      • Christina D. Buesching, Neil Jordan

      Pages 94-103

3. Olfaction in Humans

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. The Effects of Artificial Fragrances on Human Olfactory Communication

      • Caroline Allen, Jan Havlíček, S. Craig Roberts

      Pages 107-117

   3. The Human Mammary Odour Factor: Variability and Regularities in Sources and Functions

      • Benoist Schaal, Sébastien Doucet, Robert Soussignan, Magali Klaey-Tassone, Bruno Patris, Karine Durand

      Pages 118-138

   4. Cross-Cultural Approaches to Better Understand Chemical Communication in Humans

      • Camille Ferdenzi

      Pages 139-152

   5. Adaptation of the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test for the Population of Central Russia

      • Vera V. Voznessenskaya, Maria A. Klyuchnikova, Elena I. Rodionova, Anna Voznesenskaya

      Pages 153-161

4. Inter-specific Cues and Signals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. House Mouse (Mus musculus) Avoidance of Olfactory Cues from Ferrets and Other Mammalian and Reptilian Predators: Preliminary Results

      • Carlos Grau, Eva Teruel, Julius Leclercq, Patrick Pageat

      Pages 165-181

   3. Do Carnivores Have a World Wide Web of Interspecific Scent Signals?

      • Peter Apps, Kasim Rafiq, J. Weldon McNutt

      Pages 182-202

5. Semio-chemistry and Evolution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Chemistry Between Salamanders: Evolution of the SPF Courtship Pheromone System in Salamandridae

      • Franky Bossuyt, Margo Maex, Dag Treer, Lisa M. Schulte, Ines Van Bocxlaer, Sunita Janssenswillen

      Pages 205-220

In August 2017, the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates (CSiV) group held its 14th triennial meeting at Cardiff University in Wales. This well established international conference brings together leaders and students in the field of olfactory communication and chemical signaling of vertebrates to present new advances in their research as well as synopses of disparate areas under new angles. This volume is a collection of the proceedings of this meeting authored by leading experts in this field that covers a wide variety of topics in chemical ecology. 

• pheromone
• olfactory communication
• ethology
• Ethology
• Biochemistry
• Animal behaviour
• Model vertebrates

• Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Abingdon, UK

  Christina D. Buesching

Dr. Christina D. Buesching is a Zoology Research Fellow with Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit and is passionate about animal welfare and conservation. She did her MSc thesis on the reproductive behavior and physiology of Lesser Mouse Lemurs at the German Primate Centre and her DPhil on olfactory communication in European badgers at the University of Oxford. Since, she published over 100 scientific papers on a diverse range of ecological paradigms. Her main research interest, however, remains the role of semio-chemistry in animal reproductive behavior, where she focuses predominantly on the European badger as a model species.

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