Example sentences for: pheromones

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  • The fact that pheromonal stimulation of both follicular and somatic growth was evident as early as 105 days makes it difficult to say, with any certainty, whether pheromones affect these phenomena by independent or interacting pathways.

  • Incidental transfer of pheromones in male scentmarks to females was avoided by handling females and their cages prior to handling males or male cages.

  • The rate of reproductive development and the onset of fertility are influenced by an array of environmental factors that can be broadly grouped as physical, nutritional, and social [ 1 ] . Chief among social cues in mammals are priming pheromones that can retard or accelerate sexual development within constraints of factors such as photoperiod and nutritional status of the individual.

  • An earlier study found that juvenile females isolated from all adult stimuli from 90 days of age grew to adult size (60 g) but failed to express first estrus by 180 days [ 7 ] . In contrast, all females exposed directly to male pheromones by cage switching reached first estrus at an average age of 127 days, and more than half of females individually caged (i.e.

  • Pheromones, and the rich world of unconscious effects of odors and pheromones, are beyond the present scope (cf.


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