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A juvenile mouse pheromone inhibits sexual behaviour through the vomeronasal system

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  • David M. Ferrero

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Lisa M. Moeller

    (Institute for Biology II, RWTH Aachen University)

  • Takuya Osakada

    (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan)

  • Nao Horio

    (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan)

  • Qian Li

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Dheeraj S. Roy

    (Harvard Medical School)

  • Annika Cichy

    (Institute for Biology II, RWTH Aachen University)

  • Marc Spehr

    (Institute for Biology II, RWTH Aachen University)

  • Kazushige Touhara

    (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
    ERATO Touhara Chemosensory Signal Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan)

  • Stephen D. Liberles

    (Harvard Medical School)

Abstract

ESP22, a new pheromone produced by juvenile mice before puberty and released through the tears, activates neurons in the vomeronasal organ and inhibits mating behaviour in adult males towards animals expressing this signal.

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  • David M. Ferrero & Lisa M. Moeller & Takuya Osakada & Nao Horio & Qian Li & Dheeraj S. Roy & Annika Cichy & Marc Spehr & Kazushige Touhara & Stephen D. Liberles, 2013. "A juvenile mouse pheromone inhibits sexual behaviour through the vomeronasal system," Nature, Nature, vol. 502(7471), pages 368-371, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:502:y:2013:i:7471:d:10.1038_nature12579
    DOI: 10.1038/nature12579
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    1. Anat Kahan & Yoram Ben-Shaul, 2016. "Extracting Behaviorally Relevant Traits from Natural Stimuli: Benefits of Combinatorial Representations at the Accessory Olfactory Bulb," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(3), pages 1-25, March.

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