Kannan S, Archunan G
Department of Animal Science, Bharathidasan University, Thiruchirappalli, India.
Acta Physiol Hung. 1997;85(2):175-81.
The present investigations were carried out to evaluate whether the variations in the biochemical composition of male scent markers may cause differences in the attractiveness to female rats, Rattus norvegicus. The scents originated from the preputial glands, cheek glands, skin, urine, faeces, and ventral body rubbing. The females responded to all these scent sources of male but they spent more time to ventral body rubbing, preputial glands and urine. However, the duration of response was differ from one another, which may be due to the quantitative and qualitative variations of biochemical composition of male scent sources. The females responded to male odours in the following order; ventral body rubbing, preputial gland, urine, cheek gland, skin extract and finally to the faeces as observed in the present investigation. Thus, The present work concluded that the lipids play a major role in the sexual attraction through the sex pheromones released by the male to the females of the same species.
开展本研究是为了评估雄性气味标记物的生化成分变化是否会导致对雌性褐家鼠吸引力的差异。这些气味源自包皮腺、颊腺、皮肤、尿液、粪便以及腹部蹭擦。雌性对雄性的所有这些气味源都有反应，但它们在腹部蹭擦、包皮腺和尿液上花费的时间更多。然而，反应持续时间各不相同，这可能是由于雄性气味源生化成分的数量和质量变化所致。在本研究中观察到，雌性对雄性气味的反应顺序如下：腹部蹭擦、包皮腺、尿液、颊腺、皮肤提取物，最后是粪便。因此，本研究得出结论，脂质通过雄性向同一物种雌性释放的性信息素在性吸引中起主要作用。
