Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 9

by Marchlewska-Koj, Anna; Lepri, John J.; Muller-Schwarze, Dietland

• ISBN13: 9780306466823
• ISBN10: 0306466821
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-31
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

This volume presents recent progress in our understanding of various mechanisms involved in chemical communication between individual animals. Such communication is important for survival and reproduction of any vertebrate species in a variable environment. Apart from visual and acoustic signals, many animals developed highly complex means of conveying message by odor and taste. Low molecular weight and volatile compounds known as pheromones affect many metabolic processes and behavioral traits. The chapters in this book are derived from presentations and discussions at the Ninth International Symposium on Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, held at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, on July 25-29, 2000. The four days and nights of discussions at the conference explored diverse topics in chemical communication, and many of the chapters in this volume were improved by revisions in which the authors took into account the discussions in Krakow.

Table of Contents

ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION
From individuals to populations: Field studies as proving grounds for the role of chemical signals	1	(10)
D. Muller-Schwarze
The economic consequences of advertising scent mark location on territories	11	(8)
S. C. Roberts
L. M. Gosling
Do chemical alarm signals enhance survival of aquatic vertebrates? An analysis of the current research paradigm	19	(8)
R. S. Mirza
D. P. Chivers
Mechanisms of olfactory foraging by Antarctic procelliiform seabirds	27	(8)
G. A. Nevitt
Ecological aspects of house mouse urinary chemosignals	35	(8)
L. C. Drickamer
Information in scent signals of competitive social status: The interface between behaviour and chemistry	43	(10)
J. L. Hurst
R. J. Beynon
R. E. Humphries
N. Malone
C. M. Nevison
C. E. Payne
D. H. L. Robertson
C. Veggerby
Molecular approaches in chemical communication of mammals	53	(8)
E. P. Zinkevich
V. S. Vasilieva
STRUCTURE AND NEURONAL MECHANISMS OF CHEMOSENSORY SYSTEMS
Neural mechanisms of communication: From pheromones to mosaic signals	61	(8)
R. E. Johnston
A unique subfamily of olfactory receptors	69	(8)
J. Strotmann
Odours are represented in glomerular activity patterns: Optical imaging studies in the insect antennal lobe	77	(8)
C. G. Galizia
S. Sachse
H. Mustaparta
Spatial representations of odorant chemistry in the main olfactory bulb of the rat	85	(8)
B. A. Johnson
M. Leon
Prenatal growth and adult size of the vomeronasal organ in mouse lemurs and humans	93	(8)
T. D. Smith
M. P. Mooney
A. M. Burrows
K. P. Bhatnagar
M. I. Siegel
Size of the vomeronasal organ in wild Microtus	101	(6)
L. M. Maico
D. L. Roslinski
A. M. Burrows
M. P. Mooney
M. I. Siegel
K. P. Bhatnagar
T. D. Smith
Oxytocin, norepinephrine and olfactory bulb mediated recognition	107	(10)
D. E. Dluzen
Y. Shang
R. Landgraf
A possible humoral pathway for the priming action of the male pheromone androstenol on female pigs	117	(8)
T. Krzymowski
S. Stefanczyk-Krzymowska
W. Grzegorzewski
J. Skipor
B. Wasowska
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OF PHEROMONES AND BINDING PROTEINS
Demonstration of volatile C19-steroids in the urine of female Asian elephants,Elephas Maximus	125	(8)
M. Dehnhard
M. Heistermann
F. Goritz
R. Hermes
T. Hildebrandt
G. Strauss
C. Weisgerber
H. Haber
The pheromone of the male goat: Function, sources, androgen dependency and partial chemical characterization	133	(8)
R. Claus
M. Dehnhard
U. Gotz
M. Lacorn
Analysis of volatile compounds in scent-marks of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) and their possible function in olfactory communication	141	(8)
H. Hofer
M. East
I. Sammang
M. Dehnhard
Mice, MUPs, and myths: Structure-function relationships of the major urinary proteins	149	(8)
R. J. Beynon
J. L. Hurst
S. J. Gaskell
S. J. Hubbard
R. E. Humphries
N. Malone
A. D. Marie
L. Martinsen
C. M. Nevison
C. E. Payne
D. H. L. Robertson
C. Veggerby
Polymorphic variants of mouse major urinary proteins	157	(8)
C. Veggerby
C. E. Payne
S. J. Gaskell
D. H. L. Robertson
J. L. Hurst
R. J. Beynon
Differential responses elicited in male mice by MUP-borne odorants	165	(4)
A. Cavaggioni
C. Mucignat-Caretta
A. Caretta
Characteristics of ligand binding and release by major urinary proteins	169	(8)
D. H. L. Robertson
A. D. Marie
C. Veggerby
J. L. Hurst
R. J. Beynon
Chemical communication in the pig	177	(6)
D. Loebel
A. Scaloni
S. Paolini
S. Marchese
C. Fini
L. Ferrara
H. Breer
P. Pelosi
PRENATAL CHEMICAL COMMUNICATION
Inter-fetal communication and adult phenotype in mice	183	(6)
J. G. Vandenbergh
A. K. Hotchkiss
The role of the main and accessory olfactory systems in prenatal olfaction	189	(8)
D. M. Coppola
Fetal olfactory cognition preadapts neonatal behavior in mammals	197	(8)
B. Schaal
G. Coureaud
L. Marlier
R. Soussignan
Olfaction in premature human newborns: Detection and discrimination abilities two months before gestational term	205	(6)
L. Marlier
B. Schaal
C. Gaugler
J. Messer
Intrauterine position effects on rodent urinary chemosignals	211	(6)
L. C. Drickamer
KIN, INDIVIDUAL AND SEXUAL RECOGNITION
Social status, odour communication, and mate choice in wild house mice	217	(8)
N. Malone
C. E. Payne
R. J. Beynon
J. L. Hurst
Effects of inbreeding and social status on individual recognition in mice	225	(8)
C. M. Nevison
C. J. Barnard
R. J. Beynon
J. L. Hurst
Heterogeneity of major urinary proteins in house mice: Population and sex differences	233	(8)
C. E. Payne
N. Malone
R. Humphries
C. Bradbrook
C. Veggerby
R. J. Beynon
J. L. Hurst
Genetic differences in odor discrimination by newborn mice as expressed by ultrasonic calls	241	(8)
J. Kapusta
H. Szentgyorgyi
Enhanced immune function decreases odor attraction of male laboratory mice	249	(6)
K. Litvinova
I. Kolosova
V. Mak
M. Moshkin
The olfactory sexual preferences of golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus): The effects of early social and sexual experience	255	(8)
A. V. Surov
A. V. Solovieva
A. N. Minaev
Mate recognition via waterborne chemical cues in the viviparous caecilian Typhlonectes natans (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)	263	(6)
A. Warbeck
J. Parzefall
Maternal anogenital licking in rats: Exploring the dam's differential sexual treatment of pups	269	(8)
I. Brouette-Lahlou
E. Vernet-Maury
F. Chastrette
J. Chanel
PREDATOR - PREY RELATIONSHIPS
Predator diet cues and the assessment of predation risk by aquatic vertebrates: A review and prospectus	277	(8)
D. P. Chivers
R. S. Mirza
Field observations confirm laboratory reports of defense responses by prey snakes to the odors of predatory snakes	285	(4)
W. H. N. Gutzke
Spatial responses of field (Microtus agrestis) and bank (Clethrionomys glareolus) voles to weasel (Mustela nivalis) odour in natural habitat	289	(6)
Z. Borowski
E. Owadowska
Do newts avoid conspecific alarm substances: The predation hypothesis revisited	295	(10)
J. R. Rohr
D. M. Madison
Responses to nitrogen-oxides by Characiforme fishes suggest evolutionary conservation in Ostariophysan alarm pheromones	305	(8)
G. E. Brown
J. C. Adrian Jr.
I. H. Kaufman
J. L. Erickson
D. Gershaneck
MARKING BEHAVIOR: PURPOSE AND CONSEQUENCES
Anal scent gland secretion of the European other (Lutra lutra)	313	(8)
A. Bradshaw
M. Beckmann
R. Stevens
F. Slater
Scent-marking behaviour of the European badger (Meles meles): Resource defence or individual advertisement?	321	(8)
C. D. Buesching
D. W. Macdonald
Scent marking behaviors of the striped mongoose, Mungos mungo	329	(6)
I. Ianovschi
Increased social dominance in male rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus, is associated with increased secretion of 2-phenoxy ethanol from the chin gland	335	(8)
R. A. Hayes
B. J. Richardson
S. G. Wyllie
The response of individuals to over-marks of conspecifics differs between two species of Microtine rodents	343	(4)
M. H. Ferkin
The secretion of the supplementary sacculi of the dwarf hamster Phodopus campbelli	347	(6)
R. Apfelbach
U. Schmidt
N. Y. Vasilieva
The role of urinary proteins and volatiles in competitive scent marking among male house mice	353	(8)
R. E. Humphries
D. H. L. Robertson
C. M. Nevison
R. J. Beynon
J. L. Hurst
SCENT SIGNALS AND REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES
Invading pest species and the threat to biodiversity: Pheromonal control of Guam brown tree snakes, Boiga irregularis	361	(8)
R. T. Mason
M. J. Greene
Annual and seasonal variation in the female sexual attractiveness pheromone of the red-sided garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis	369	(8)
M. P. LeMaster
R. T. Mason
Hypothalamic and ovarian response to pheromone application in seasonal anoestrous German mutton merino sheep	377	(8)
K.-H. Kaulfu
R. Su
P. Schenk
E. Berger
E. von Borell
Males' olfactory discrimination of receptive state of females in rat-like hamsters (Cricetulus triton)	385	(6)
J.-X. Zhang
Z.-B. Zhang
Z.-W. Wang
Pheromonal regulation of bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) reproduction	391	(6)
A. Marchlewska-Koj
Olfactory communication in Brandt's vole (Microtus brandti)	397	(6)
L. Zhang
J. Fang
R. Sun
Effects of social dominance and female odor on sperm activity of male mice	403	(8)
S. Koyama
S. Kamimura
Exposure of juvenile male Campbelli's hamsters and house mice to cat urine elicits species-specific responses in reproductive development	411	(6)
N. V. Sokolskaja
R. Apfelbach
D. von Holst
N. Y. Vasilieva
CHEMOSIGNALS AND BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES
The role of olfaction in the feeding behavior of human neonates	417	(6)
R. H. Porter
H. Varendi
J. Winberg
Pig responses to taste stimuli	423	(10)
D. Glaser
M. Wanner
J. M. Tinti
C. Nofre
Imprinting on native pond odour in the pool frog, Rana lessonae Cam	433	(6)
S. V. Ogurtsov
V. A. Bastakov
Chemical discrimination in Liolaemus lizards: Comparison of behavioral and chemical data	439	(6)
A. Labra
C. A. Escobar
H. M. Niemeyer
Simplified tests of aggression chemosignals in male house mice suggest that a melanocortin-dependent product of the preputial gland reduces attacks	445	(6)
H. K. Caldwell
L. Wang
J. J. Lepri
Remote monitoring of badgers (Meles meles) for testing discrimination between urine samples from donors of different age and sex categories	451	(8)
K. M. Service
S. Harris
The development of a simple associative test of olfactory learning and memory	459	(8)
H. M. Schellinck
C. A. Forestell
V. M. LoLordo
P. Guidry
R. E. Brown
Olfactory communication between man and other animals	467	(6)
B. A. Sommerville
D. M. Broom
Author Index	473	(2)
Subject Index	475