Failure to detect a putative oestrus-indicating pheromone in the urine or vaginal secretions of female sheep.
Extensive use of gas chromatographic analysis of the volatile and non-volatile components of sheep urine and sheep vulvovaginal secretions at different stages of the oestrous cycle has not succeeded in identifying the putative oestrus-indicating pheromone produced by the ewe. However the putative pheromone is probably not a low molecular weight alcohol, diol, phenol, amine, amide, aldehyde, ketone, fatty acid or steroid.
Bland
K P
KP
Department of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Jubilan
B M
BM
Lang
C W
CW
Nizamlioğlu
M
M
D000818:Animals; D002849:Chromatography, Gas / Q000379:methods / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D012724:Sex Attractants / Q000032:analysis* / Q000652:urine; D012756:Sheep / Q000502:physiology* / Q000652:urine; D014621:Vagina / Q000378:metabolism*
D012724:Sex Attractants