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Female Scent Signals Enhance the Resistance of Male Mice to Influenza
BACKGROUND: The scent from receptive female mice functions as a signal, which stimulates male mice to search for potential mating partners. This searching behavior is coupled with infection risk due to sniffing both scent marks as well as nasal and anogenital areas of females, which harbor bacteria...
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830430/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20208997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009473 |