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In 2014, the Chemical Signals in Vertebrates (CSiV) group held its 13th triennial meeting in conjunction with the 30th meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology (ISCE). The meeting convened on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This meeting was the first held jointly with these two groups, which share common history and are dedicated to understanding the role of chemical communication in the lives of organisms. This volume is a collection of the proceedings of this meeting and, like the meeting, cover a variety of topics in chemical ecology, including Chemical Ecology of Social Behavior; Chemical Signals - Analysis and Synthesis; Evolution, Genomics, and Transcriptomics of Chemical Signals; Molecular Mechanisms of Semiochemical Perception and Processing; Multimodal Communication; and Neuroethology and Neurophysiology.

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Contents

Foreword and Dedication

Bruce A. Schulte, Michael H. Ferkin, and Thomas E. Goodwin

A Tribute to Robert Johnston (1942-2014)

Michael H. Ferkin and Aras Petrulis

Part I. Overviews of Chemical Ecology (in) Vertebrates

1. Are Mammals Just Furry Bugs with Fewer Legs? Convergences in Mammalian and Insect Chemical Ecology

May Berenbaum

2. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 13: Where We Stand and What May Be Next

Dietland Müller-Schwarze

3. Assessing The Role of Olfactory Cues in the Early Life History of Coral Reef Fish: Current Methods and Future Directions
Rohan M. Brooker and Danielle L. Dixson

4. A Small Exposé on Bovine Pheromones - with Special Reference to Modifications of the Reproductive Cycle

Kristina Nordéus, Renée B†ge, Hans Gustafsson, Robert Glinwood, and Lennart Söderquist

Part II. Microbiomes and Chemical Signals
5. Coding of Group-Odor in the Subcaudal Gland Secretion of the European Badger Meles Meles : Chemical Composition and Pouch Microbiota

Christina D. Buesching, H. Veronica Tinnesand, YungWa Sin, Frank Rosell, Terry Burke, and David W. Macdonald

6. The Role of Bacteria in Chemical Signals of Ele
phant Musth: Proximate Causes and Biochemical Pathways

Thomas E. Goodwin, Innocent H. Harelimana, Laura J. MacDonald, Daniel B. Mark, Aline Umuhire Juru, Qin Yin, James Engman, Randall A. Kopper, Cheryl F. Lichti, Samuel G. Mackintosh, James D. Shoemaker, Mark V. Sutherland, Alan J. Tackett, and Bruce A. Schulte

7. All Paths Converge: Development of a Core Scent Pouch Microbiome in Striped Hyenas

Kevin R. Theis, Arvind Venkataraman, Aaron P. Wagne 2 , Kay E. Holekamp, and Thomas M. Schmidt

8. Bacterial Communities Associated with Junco Preen Glands: Ramifications for Chemical Signaling

Danielle J. Whittaker and Kevin R. Theis

Part III. Intraspecific Signaling

9. Age-Related Effects on Individual Discrimination among Meadow Voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus

Michael H. Ferkin, Christian T. Vlautin, and Lyndsey M. Pierson

10. Putative pheromone of the indian crestless porcupine, hystrix brachyura

Biswatosh Ghosh, Mousumi Poddar-Sarkar, Sibdas Ray, Ratan Lal Brahmachary

11. Chemical cues, Hibernation and Reproduction in Female Short-Beaked Echidnas ( Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus ): Implications for Sexual Conflict

Rachel L. Harris, Elissa Z. Cameron, Noel W. Davies, and Stewart C. Nicol

12. Chemical Analyses Reve
al Family Specific Nest Odor Profiles in Zebra Finches ( Taeniopygia guttata ): A Pilot Study

Sarah Kohlwey, E. Tobias Krause, Markus Baier, Caroline Müller, and Barbara A. Caspers

13. Exploring the Use of Olfactory Cues in Non-Social Context in Zebra Finches ( Taeniopygia guttata )

E. Tobias Krause, Johanna Kabbert, and Barbara A. Caspers

14. Variation in Urinary Amino Acids in the Mozambique Tilapia: A Signal of Dominance or Individuality?

Olesya Kutsyna, Zélia Velez, Adelino V.M. Canário, Tina Keller-Costa, and Peter C. Hubbard

15. A Low Phytoestrogen Diet Reduces the Proceptivity but Not the Attractivity of Meadow Voles ( Microtus pennsylvanicus )

Lyndsey Pierson, Matthew Hetherington, and Michael H. Ferkin

16. Chemical Communication in Indian Blackbuck ( Antelope Cervicapra L) in Reference to Dominance and Estrous Cycle

T. Rajagopal and G. Archunan

17. Asian Elephant Reflections: Chirality Counts

L.E.L. Rasmussen, David R. Greenwood, Thomas E. Goodwin, and Bruce A. Schulte

Part IV. Interspecific Signaling

18. Detection of Fish and Newt Kairomones by Ovipositing Mosquitoes

Lauren L. Eveland, Jason Bohenek, Alon Silberbush, and William J. Resetarits

19. Evolutionary As
pects of the Use of Predator Odors in Antipredator Strategies of Lumholtz´s Tree-Kangaroos ( Dendrolagus lumholtzi )

Sigrid R. Heise-Pavlov

20. Small Emissions for Big Consequences: Specialized Malodorous Avian Defenses Breed Fluctuations in Brood Parasite-Hos

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