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Marlen Kücklich

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity ResearchORCID 0000-0001-7694-6474Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Animal Behavior & Cognition· 2 Ecology· 1

Signature Assays, Organisms & Methods

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Organism:chicken / avian· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Anja WiddigiD· 2 shared B. WeißiD· 2 shared Claudia BirkemeyeriD· 2 shared A. Widdig· 1 shared Bastian HeinleiniD· 1 shared Brigitte M. Weiß· 1 shared Carolin SchnauberiD· 1 shared Claudia Wiesner· 1 shared

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2025-2026 · peak 2/yr

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EcologybioRxivPreprintSep 29, 2026

The chemistry of families: Linking body odor composition to olfactory perception

Katharina Hierl, Carolin Schnauber, Marlen Kücklich…·Laura Schäfer

This study links body odor composition to olfactory perception in human families, finding that relatedness and sex predict both perceptual and chemical similarity.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.29.755001

humanproteomics

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Animal Behavior & CognitionScientific ReportsPeer-reviewedSep 10, 2026

Multimodal fertility cues in chimpanzees: How body odours complement sexual swellings

Marlen Kücklich, Madita Zetzsche, Sofya Dolotovskaya…·A. Widdig

This study investigates whether chimpanzee anogenital odours change during the fertile period and if males can detect these changes, finding subtle olfactory cues complement visual swelling signals.

DOI 10.1038/s41598-026-70687-z

chicken / avianexperimental assay

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Animal Behavior & CognitionScientific ReportsPeer-reviewedJan 13, 2025

Chemical signatures of social information in Barbary macaques

Brigitte M. Weiß, Claudia Birkemeyer, Marlen Kücklich, Anja Widdig

The paper investigates how body odor in Barbary macaques encodes social information, finding individual signatures and limited kin or rank cues.

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non-human primateexperimental assay

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