Table of Contents

Perspectives in Chemical Ecology.- Thirty years on the odor trail: From the first to the tenth international symposium on chemical signals in vertebrates.- Pheromones: Convergence and contrasts in insects and vertebrates.- Intraspecific Behavior.- The discovery and characterisation of splendipherin, the first anuran sex pheromone.- Chemically mediated mate recognition in the tailed frog (ascaphus truei).- Responses to sex- and species-specific chemical signals in allopatric and sympatric salamander species.- The pheromonal repelling response in red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens).- The effects of cloacal secretions on brown tree snake behavior.- Species and sub-species recognition in the North American beaver.- Self-grooming in meadow voles.- Protein content of male diet does not influence proceptive or receptive behavior in female meadow voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus.- The signalling of competitive ability by male house mice.- A possible function for female enurination in the mara, Dolichotis patagonum.- The evolution of perfume-blending and wing sacs in emballonurid bats.- Behavioral responsiveness of captive giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) to substrate odors from conspecifics of the opposite sex.- Chemical signals in giant panda urine (Ailuropoda melanoleuca).- Chemical communication of musth in captive male asian elephants, Elephas maximus.- Chemical analysis of preovulatory female african elephant urine: A search for putative pheromones.- Assessing chemical communication in elephants.- The gland and the sac — the preorbital apparatus of muntjacs.- The chemistry of scent marking in two lemurs: Lemur catta and Propithecus verreauxi coquereli.- Soiled bedding from group-housed females exerts strong influence on male reproductive condition.- The roleof the major histocompatibility complex in scent communication.- Characterisation of proteins in scent marks: Proteomics meets semiochemistry.- The “scents” of ownership.- The role of scent in inter-male aggression in house mice & laboratory mice.- Chemical signals and vomeronasal system function in axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum).- From the eye to the nose: Ancient orbital to vomeronasal communication in tetrapods?.- Prey chemical signal transduction in the vomeronasal system of garter snakes.- Mode of delivery of prey-derived chemoattractants to the olfactory and vomeronasal epithelia results in differential firing of mitral cells in the main and accessory olfactory bulbs of garter snakes.- Communication by mosaic signals: Individual recognition and underlying neural mechanisms.- Sexual dimorphism in the accessory olfactory bulb and vomeronasal organ of the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica.- The neurobiology of odor-based sexual preference the case of the golden hamster.- Retention of olfactory memories by newborn infants.- Human sweaty smell does not affect women’s menstrual cycle.- Interspecific Responses.- Local predation risk assessment based on low concentration chemical alarm cues in prey fishes: Evidence for threat-sensitivity.- Learned recognition of heterospecific alarm cues by prey fishes: A case study of minnows and stickleback.- The response of prey fishes to chemical alarm cues: What recent field experiments reveal about the old testing paradigm.- Response of juvenile goldfish (Carassius auratus) to chemical alarm cues: Relationship between response intensity, response duration, and the level of predation risk.- The effects of predation on phenotypic and life history variation in an aquatic vertebrate.- Nocturnal shift in theantipredator response to predator-diet cues in laboratory and field trials.- Long-term persistence of a salamander anti-predator cue.- Decline in avoidance of predator chemical cues: Habituation or biorhythm shift?.- Chemically mediated life-history shifts in embryonic amphibians.- Latent alarm signals: Are they present in vertebrates?.- Blood is not a cue for poststrike trailing in rattlesnakes.- Rattlesnakes can use airborne cues during post-strike prey relocation.- The sense of smell in procellariiforms: An overview and new directions.- Cottontails and gopherweed: Anti-feeding compounds from a spurge.