Age-related changes in the processing of the Rabbit Mammary Pheromone: morphological transformation in the responses

Olfactory maternal effects: cues and signals promoting adaptive behaviour in infant mammals

Préférences sociales chez le lapin en période de sevrage: impact des apprentissages olfactifs néonatals

Mammary olfactory signalisation in females and odor processing in neonates: ways evolved by rabbits and humans

International audience; Mammalian females have long been known to release olfactory attraction in their offspring. Mammary odor cues control infant state, attention and directional responses, delay distress responses, stimulate breathing and positive oral actions, and finally can boost learning. Here, we survey female-offspring odor communication in two mammalian species - European rabbits and humans - taken as representatives of evolutionary extremes in terms of structure and dynamics of mother-infant relations, and level of neonatal autonomy. Despite these early psychobiological differences, females in both species have evolved mammary structures combining multiple sources of endogenous a…

A mammalian pheromone that carry both releasing and reinforcing functions