Variations in mouse (Mus musculus) urinary volatiles during different periods of pregnancy and lactation

Jemioło, Bożena; Andreolini, Franca; Wiesler, Donald; Novotný, Miloš V.

doi:10.1007/bf01014677

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“…[5,6]); nonetheless, there is growing recognition of reproductive signalling via olfactory channels [7]. As in several non-primate species [8][9][10], olfactory cues of pregnancy occur in humans, possibly facilitating mother-infant recognition [11]; otherwise, the potential for olfactory gestational cues in primates has been ignored. Here, we investigate pregnancy effects on olfactory cues in a promiscuous, non-human primate, the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).…”

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Baby on board: olfactory cues indicate pregnancy and fetal sex in a non-human primate

Crawford

Drea

2015

Biol. Lett.

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Although pregnancy dramatically alters a female's endocrine profiles, which can be further influenced by fetal sex, the relationship between gestation and olfactory cues is poorly understood. We therefore examined the effects of pregnancy and fetal sex on volatile genital secretions in the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), a strepsirrhine primate possessing complex olfactory mechanisms of reproductive signalling. While pregnant, dams altered and dampened their expression of volatile chemicals, with compound richness being particularly reduced in dams bearing sons. These changes were comparable in magnitude with other, published chemical differences among lemurs that are salient to conspecifics. Such olfactory 'signatures' of pregnancy may help guide social interactions, potentially promoting mother-infant recognition, reducing intragroup conflict or counteracting behavioural mechanisms of paternity confusion; cues that also advertise fetal sex may additionally facilitate differential sex allocation.

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Baby on board: olfactory cues indicate pregnancy and fetal sex in a non-human primate

Crawford

Drea

2015

Biol. Lett.

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“…Volatile chemicals in the urine of kinship and non-kinship in T. belangeri: The types of volatile chemical substances in urine of kinship in T. belangeri were shown in Urine is one of the metabolic production in animals, which contains some strong volatile chemical compositions (Ma and Klemm, 1997;Raymer et al, 1986;Jemiolo et al, 1987). The current study found that volatile chemical compositions in urine for kinship T. belangeri were similar, which contains Alcohols, Alkanes, Esters, Ketones, Aldehydes and Phenol, etc.…”

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Analysis of volatile chemical substances in urine of the kinship and non-kinship Tupaia belangeri (Mammalia: Scandentia: Tupaiidae)

Zhu

Ren

Hou

et al. 2018

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Chemical communication plays an important role in reproductive and social behaviour of small mammals. The chemical constituents of urine were the main signal resources that can encode sex and social status. The purpose of the present study was to test volatile chemical substances in urine of the kinship and non-kinship Tupaia belangeri, volatile chemicals in urine were performed by the gas chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS), which is speculated that volatile chemicals in urine may had key role in its kin recognition of T. belangeri. The results showed that the components of volatile chemicals in urine were similar between the kinship and non-kinship T. belangeri, which the main components were Alcohols, Alkanes, Esters and Ketones, but the types of each materials were discrepant. "Formic acid, octyl ester" were absence or existence regularly, and "-Farnesene" and "2,4-Dithiapentane" were found in kinship and non-kinship T. belangeri, which may be signaling substances in the urine. All of the results suggested that volatile chemical substances in urine were different in kinship and non-kinship T. belangeri, indicating that chemical communication based on signals in urine plays an important role in its kin recognition of T. belangeri.

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“…Ketones are reasonably common in mammalian exocrine secretions, and Albone (1984b) has cited several examples of secretions containing a few short-to medium-chain ketones. Jemiolo et al (1987) have found several saturated, unsat-urated, and methyl-branched unsaturated ketones in the urine of the house mouse, Mus musculus.…”

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Journal of Chemical Ecology

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In a study aimed at the chemical characterization of constituents of the ventral gland secretion of the male dwarf hamster, Phodopus sungorus sungorus, 48 compounds, including saturated alcohols, saturated and unsaturated ketones, saturated and unsaturated straight-chain carboxylic acids, iso-and an-teisocarboxylic acids, 3-phenylpropanoic acid, hydroxyesters, 2-piperidone, and some steroids were identified in the secretion.The position of the double bonds in γ -icosadienyl-γ -butyrolactone and γ -henicosadienyl-γ -butyrolactone, and the position of methylbranching in seven C16 -C21 saturated ketones could not be established. Several constituents with typically steroidal mass spectra also remained unidentified. The female dwarf hamster's ventral gland either does not produce secretion or produced so little secretion that it was impossible to collect enough material for analysis.

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Variations in mouse (Mus musculus) urinary volatiles during different periods of pregnancy and lactation

Cited by 37 publications

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Baby on board: olfactory cues indicate pregnancy and fetal sex in a non-human primate

Baby on board: olfactory cues indicate pregnancy and fetal sex in a non-human primate

Analysis of volatile chemical substances in urine of the kinship and non-kinship Tupaia belangeri (Mammalia: Scandentia: Tupaiidae)

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