Scent marking behavior as an odorant communication in mice.

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Published in Neurosci Biobehav Rev on May 15, 2008

Authors

Hiroyuki Arakawa1, D Caroline Blanchard, Keiko Arakawa, Christopher Dunlap, Robert J Blanchard

Author Affiliations

1: Pacific Bioscience Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1993 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. harakawa@binghamton.edu

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