Preface

List of Contributors

List of Contents

Part I: Intra-specific Communication in Non-Human Vertebrates

1 Perspectives on chemical signals conveying information in rodents
Michael H. Ferkin

2 Latrines as potential communication centres in short-beaked echidnas
Rachel L. Harris, Jenny Sprent and Stewart C. Nicol

3 Do urinary volatiles carry communicative messages in Himalayan Snow leopards [Panthera uncia, (Schreber, 1775)]?
Subhadeep Das, Sourav Manna, Sandipan Ray, Payel Das, Upashna Rai, Biswatosh Ghosh and Mousumi Poddar Sarkar

4 Encoded information within urine influences behavioural responses among European badgers (Meles meles)
Tanesha M. Allen, Nadine A. Sugianto, Charlotte Ryder, Chris Newman, David W. Macdonald and Christina D. Buesching

5 LPS-induced immune system stimulation alters urinary volatiles and behaviour in growing pigs
Sankarganesh Devaraj, Anoosh Rakhshandeh, Edgar Aviles-Rosa and John J McGlone

6 A field study of wild echidna responses to conspecific odour
Rachel L. Harris, Elissa Z. Cameron and Stewart C. Nicol

8 The social function of latrines: A hypothesis-driven research approach
Christina D. Buesching and Neil Jordan

9 The effects of artificial fragrances on human olfactory communication
Caroline Allen, Jan Havlíček and S. Craig Roberts

10 The human mammary odour factor: Variability and regularities in sources and functions
Benoist Schaal, Sébastien Doucet, Robert Soussignan, Magali Klaey-Tassone, Bruno Patris, and Karine Durand

11 Cross-cultural approaches to better understand chemical communication in humans
Camille Ferdenzi

Part III: Inter-specific Cues and Signals

13 House Mouse (Mus musculus) Avoidance of Olfactory Cues from Ferrets and Other Mammalian and Reptilian Predators: Preliminary Results
Carlos Grau, Eva Teruel, Julius. Leclercq and Patrick Pageat

14 Do carnivores have a world wide web of interspecific scent signals?
Peter Apps, Kasim Rafiq and J. Weldon McNutt

Part IV: Semio-chemistry and Evolution

15 Chemistry between salamanders: Evolution of the SPF courtship pheromone system in Salamandridae
Franky Bossuyt, Margo Maex, Dag Treer, Lisa M. Schulte, Ines Van Bocxlaer and Sunita Janssenswillen

16 Comparative structural modelling of bovine vomeronasal type-1 receptor I (VN1R1) and elucidation o
About the Author: Dr. Christina D. Buesching is a Zoology Research Fellow with Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit and is passionate about animal welfare and conservation. She did her MSc thesis on the reproductive behavior and physiology of Lesser Mouse Lemurs at the German Primate Centre and her DPhil on olfactory communication in European badgers at the University of Oxford. Since, she published over 100 scientific papers on a diverse range of ecological paradigms. Her main research interest, however, remains the role of semio-chemistry in animal reproductive behavior, where she focuses predominantly on the European badger as a model species.