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Thet complex of the mouse: Chemical characterization by urinary volatile profiles
Authors:B Jemiolo  T -M Xie  F Andreolini  A E M Baker  M Novotny
Affiliation:(1) Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 47405 Bloomington, Indiana;(2) Present address: Strada Rivoltana, Carlo Erba Strumentazione, 20090 Rodano-Milano, Italy;(3) Present address: Department of Biology, Colorado State University, 80523 Fort Collins, Colorado
Abstract:Urine samples from C3H congenic house mice (Mus domesticus) differing only at thet complex were examined by capillary gas chromatography to assess variations in the volatile components that may cause olfactory discrimination between animals bearingt lethal and+(wild-type) haplotypes. Urine was collected from 192 males and females varying in age from 1 to 9 months. C3H congenic mice that have the same genetic background at all loci but differed in theirt complex genotypes: +/ +, +/tw1,T/t w1, T/+ were used. No urinary volatiles were unique to thet complex. However, significant differences amongt complex genotypes and among ages occurred for concentrations of 12 male volatiles and four female volatiles. Usually young males (1–2 months of age) had significantly higher concentrations of cyclic enol ethers and ketones than older males (4–9 months of age). Moreover, some urinary volatiles (cyclic enol ethers, one ketone, dehydrobrevicomin, and thiazoline) were excreted in the urine of T/+and/orT/t males in significantly higher concentration than in the urine of +/+ males. Age andt complex genotype influences on the urinary volatiles in females were observed for four ketones. Gas chromatography of urinary components has the potential to be used in field studies of thet complex because the two t complex genotypes found in wild populations, +/+ and +/t, had significant differences in concentration for two males volatiles and three female volatiles.We dedicate this paper to the memory of Dorothea Bennett.On leave from the Environmental Protection Institute, Ministry of Light Industry, Beijing, China.A.E.M.B. supported in part by NSF BSR 8909172.
Keywords:Urinary volatiles  house mouse  chemosignals  T locus  t complex  Mus domesticus  capillary gas chromatography
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