ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2010
Pheromones in birds: myth or reality?
Review in Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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- Metabolic Profiling Reveals That the Olfactory Cues in the Duck Uropygial Gland Potentially Act as Sex Pheromones.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Conspecific olfactory preferences and interspecific divergence in odor cues in a chickadee hybrid zone.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Avian and rodent responses to the olfactory landscape in a Mediterranean cavity community.Oecologia · 2019Article
- Comparative genomics sheds light on the predatory lifestyle of accipitrids and owls.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Wax Ester Composition of Songbird Preen Oil Varies Seasonally and Differs between Sexes, Ages, and Populations.Journal of chemical ecology · 2019Article
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- The Scent of the Fly.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Article
- Zebra Finch chicks recognise parental scent, and retain chemosensory knowledge of their genetic mother, even after egg cross-fostering.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Odour-based discrimination of similarity at the major histocompatibility complex in birds.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- The Odour of Sex: Sex-Related Differences in Volatile Compound Composition among Barn Swallow Eggs Carrying Embryos of Either Sex.PloS one · 2016Article
- The perfume of reproduction in birds: chemosignaling in avian social life.Hormones and behavior · 2015Review
- Chemical cues and pheromones in the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus).Frontiers in zoology · 2015Review
- Diversity in olfactory bulb size in birds reflects allometry, ecology, and phylogeny.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2015Article
- Stop and Smell the Pollen: The Role of Olfaction and Vision of the Oriental Honey Buzzard in Identifying Food.PloS one · 2015Article
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- Chemical kin label in seabirds.Biology letters · 2011Article
- Evolution of olfaction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs and birds.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2011Article
- The avian subpallium: new insights into structural and functional subdivisions occupying the lateral subpallial wall and their embryological origins.Brain research · 2011Review
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Abstract
Birds are anosmic or at best microsmatic… This misbelief persisted until very recently and has strongly influenced the outcome of communication studies in birds, with olfaction remaining neglected as compared to acoustic and visual channels. However, there is now clear empirical evidence showing that olfaction is perfectly functional in birds and birds use olfactory information in a variety of ethological contexts. Although the existence of pheromones has never been formally demonstrated in this vertebrate class, different groups of birds, such as petrels, auklets and ducks have been shown to produce specific scents that could play a significant role in within-species social interactions. Behavioral experiments have indeed demonstrated that these odors influence the behavior of conspecifics. Additionally, in quail, deprivation of olfactory inputs decreases neuronal activation induced by sexual interactions with a female. It seems therefore well established that birds enjoy a functional sense of smell and a fast growing body of experimental evidence suggests that they use this channel of olfactory communication to control their social life. The unequivocal identification of an avian pheromone is, however, still ahead of us but there are now many exciting opportunities to unravel the behavioral and physiological particularities of chemical communication in birds.
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