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Science 9 August 1968:
Vol. 161. no. 3841, pp. 584 - 585
DOI: 10.1126/science.161.3841.584
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Estrus-Inducing Pheromone of Male Mice: Transport by Movement of Air

W. K. Whitten 1, F. H. Bronson 1, and J. A. Greenstein 1

1 Jackson Laboratory, Barc Harbor, Maine 04609

The proportion of female SJL/J mice exhibiting estrus whet 2 meters downwind (6 meters per minute) from a group of 15 hybrid mi not significantly less than that of females placed directly under the males posed to their urine. The proportion of mice showing estrus when placed 2 upwind was significantly less than that of mice downwind or of mice beloii but not different from that of females remote from males. These findings sh the pheromone from male mice is volatile and further support the concep, acts through olfactory receptors.


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