Localization of α 2u-globulin in the acinar cells of preputial gland, and confirmation of its binding with farnesol, a putative pheromone, in field rat (Millardia meltada)

• Ramachandran Rajamanickam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ramachandran Rajamanickam, Achiraman Shanmugam, Rajagopal Thangavel

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India

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• Achiraman Shanmugam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ramachandran Rajamanickam, Achiraman Shanmugam, Rajagopal Thangavel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: achiramans@gmail.com (AS); ppadmanabhan1@gmail.com (PP); garchu56@yahoo.co.in (AG)

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India, Centre for Pheromone Technology, Department of Animal Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6790-5205

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• Rajagopal Thangavel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ramachandran Rajamanickam, Achiraman Shanmugam, Rajagopal Thangavel

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Centre for Pheromone Technology, Department of Animal Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India, Post Graduate and Research Department of Zoology and Microbiology, Thiagarajar College (Autonomous), Madurai, Tamilnadu, India

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• Sankarganesh Devaraj,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India

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• Kamalakkannan Soundararajan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India

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• Ponmanickam Ponnirul,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Centre for Pheromone Technology, Department of Animal Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India, Department of Zoology, Ayya Nadar Janaki Ammal College (Autonomous), Sivakasi, Tamilnadu, India

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• Rajkumar Ramalingam,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Centre for Pheromone Technology, Department of Animal Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India, Nuclear Dynamics and Architecture Lab, Institute of Medical Biology-IMB, Singapore, Singapore

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• Ramya Vaideki Ganesan,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Post Graduate and Research Department of Zoology and Microbiology, Thiagarajar College (Autonomous), Madurai, Tamilnadu, India

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• Padmanabhan Parasuraman ,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: achiramans@gmail.com (AS); ppadmanabhan1@gmail.com (PP); garchu56@yahoo.co.in (AG)

  Affiliation Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

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• Archunan Govindaraju

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: achiramans@gmail.com (AS); ppadmanabhan1@gmail.com (PP); garchu56@yahoo.co.in (AG)

  Affiliation Centre for Pheromone Technology, Department of Animal Science, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamilnadu, India

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