Attraction of female house mice to male ultrasonic courtship vocalizations depends on their social experience and estrous stage.

Male house mice (Mus musculus) produce complex ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs), especially during courtship and mating. Playback experiments suggest that female attraction towards recordings of male USVs depends on their social experience, paternal exposure, and estrous stage. We conducted a playbac...

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Main Authors: Jakob Beck, Bettina Wernisch, Teresa Klaus, Dustin J Penn, Sarah M Zala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285642