Compounds from plantar foot sweat, nesting material, and urine show strain patterns associated with agonistic and affiliative behaviors in group housed male mice, Mus musculus.

Excessive home cage aggression often results in severe injury and subsequent premature euthanasia of male laboratory mice. Aggression can be reduced by transferring used nesting material during cage cleaning, which is thought to contain aggression appeasing odors from the plantar sweat glands. Howev...

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Main Authors: Amanda J Barabas, Helena A Soini, Milos V Novotny, David R Williams, Jacob A Desmond, Jeffrey R Lucas, Marisa A Erasmus, Heng-Wei Cheng, Brianna N Gaskill
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Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/e1cd68861c0d42b9a95efd24c4882cd3
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