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Are MUPs a Toxic Waste Disposal System?

Male house mice produce large quantities of major urinary proteins (MUPs), which function to bind and transport volatile pheromones, though they may also function as scavengers that bind and excrete toxic compounds (‘toxic waste hypothesis’). In this study, we demonstrate the presence of an industri...

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Publié dans:PLoS One
Auteurs principaux: Kwak, Jae, Strasser, Eva, Luzynski, Ken, Thoß, Michaela, Penn, Dustin J.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Public Library of Science 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4788440/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26966901
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151474
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