Pheromonal Influences on Rodent Agonistic Behavior

摘要: The effects of odors on rodent agonistic behavior were unnoticed for many years. Attention was focused instead examining the role hormones in regulation attack and defensive responses. impetus study area provided by Beeman’s (1947) discovery that androgen injections restored intraspecific sparring castrated male rodents. Subsequent investigations demonstrated female rodents exhibited fighting when treated with testosterone (Edwards, 1968) males fought less estrogen or progesterone (Suchowski, Pegrassi, & Bonsignori, 1969; Erpino Chappelle, 1971). These changes thought to be mediated an interaction between a neural substrate aggression Leshner, 1975).