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    Chemical cues of identity and reproductive status in Japanese macaques

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    Authors
    Rigaill, Lucie
    Vaglio, Stefano cc
    Setchell, Joanna M
    Suda-Hashimoto, Naoko
    Furuichi, Takeshi
    Garcia, Cécile
    Affiliation
    School of Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, UK
    Issue Date
    2022-06-27
    
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    Abstract
    Olfactory communication plays an important role in the regulation of socio-sexual interactions in mammals. There is growing evidence that both human and non-human primates rely on odors to inform their mating decisions. Nevertheless, studies of primate chemical ecology remain scarce due to the difficulty of obtaining and analyzing samples. We analyzed 67 urine samples from 5 captive female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) and 30 vaginal swabs from 3 of these females using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry and examined the relationship between odor (compounds identified, richness, intensity, and diversity) and female identity as well as cycle phase. We found a total of 36 urine compounds of which we identified 31, and 68 vaginal compounds of which we identified 37. Our results suggest that urine and vaginal odor varied more between individuals than within cycle phases. However, we found that within a female cycle, urine samples from similar phases may cluster more than samples from different phases. Our results suggest that female odor may encode information about identity (vaginal and urine odor) and reproductive status (urine odor). The question of how conspecifics use female urine and vaginal odor remains open and could be tested using bioassays. Our results and their interpretation are constrained by our limited sample size and our study design. Nonetheless, our study provides insight into the potential signaling role of female odor in sexual communication in Japanese macaques and contributes to our understanding of how odors may influence mating strategies in primates.
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    Rigaill, L., Vaglio, S., Setchell, J. M., Suda-Hashimoto, N., et al (2022) Chemical cues of identity and reproductive status in Japanese macaques, American Journal of Primatology, 84(8), e23411.
    Publisher
    Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal
    American Journal of Primatology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/624781
    DOI
    10.1002/ajp.23411
    Additional Links
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajp.23411
    Type
    Journal article
    Language
    en
    Description
    This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Wiley in American Journal of Primatology on 27/06/2022, available online: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23411 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
    ISSN
    0275-2565
    EISSN
    1098-2345
    Sponsors
    This work was financially supported by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to LR (Kakenhi 15J01067) and by the CNRS to CG (PICS N°7258 - Multimodal advertisement of reproductive status in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)). The authors declare no conflict of interest
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