2024
Rank-dependency of major urinary protein excretion in two house mouse subspecies
MACHOLÁN, Miloš, Kristina DANISZOVA, Petra HAMPLOVÁ, Katerina JANOTOVA, Martin KAŠNÝ et. al.Základní údaje
Originální název
Rank-dependency of major urinary protein excretion in two house mouse subspecies
Autoři
MACHOLÁN, Miloš (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí), Kristina DANISZOVA, Petra HAMPLOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí), Katerina JANOTOVA, Martin KAŠNÝ (203 Česká republika, domácí), Ondrej MIKULA, Barbora Voslajerova BIMOVA a Zuzana HIADLOVSKA
Vydání
Journal of Vertebrate Biology, BRNO, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2024, 2694-7684
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
10613 Zoology
Stát vydavatele
Česká republika
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Impakt faktor
Impact factor: 1.500 v roce 2022
Organizační jednotka
Přírodovědecká fakulta
UT WoS
001087113100001
Klíčová slova anglicky
chemical communication; Mus musculus musculus; Mus musculus domesticus; social rank; testosterone; urine
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 3. 1. 2024 13:43, Mgr. Lucie Jarošová, DiS.
Anotace
V originále
Chemical communication is important for many social mammals. Scent-related gene clusters have undergone extraordinary expansion in some species, such as the house mouse (Mus musculus). One such family encodes major urinary proteins (MUPs). MUPs can provide recipients with complex information about the signaller and potentially serve as honest signals of social rank. In this study, we examined the development of overall MUP production in two mouse subspecies in the context of establishing their social hierarchy during the critical period between weaning and 100 days of age. We used fraternal pairs as simple social units, where dominant/subordinate ranks were naturally established between two brothers raised together, to test the hypothesis that dominant males of both taxa excrete higher amounts of MUPs in their urine than subordinates. The results were compared to data on ontogeny of steroid hormone levels gathered in the same individuals during an earlier experiment. Higher MUP levels in dominant males were only corroborated in one subspecies (domesticus), whereas musculus males revealed similar MUP quantities irrespective of rank. These results are consistent with the notion that these closely related taxa adopted different strategies for establishing social hierarchy.