Sensory cues that predict reward or punishment are fundamental drivers of animal behavior.
For example, attractive odors of palatable food or a potential mate predict reward, while …

Sexually dimorphic behaviors, qualitative or quantitative differences in behaviors between
the sexes, result from the activity of a sexually differentiated nervous system. Sensory cues …

During social interactions, an individual's behavior is largely governed by the subset of
signals emitted by others. Discrimination of" self" from" other" regulates the territorial urine …

The Drosophila sex pheromone cVA elicits different behaviors in males and females. First-
and second-order olfactory neurons show identical pheromone responses, suggesting that …

Animals display a repertoire of different social behaviours. Appropriate behavioural
responses depend on sensory input received during social interactions. In mice, social …

In many mammalian species, the accessory olfactory system plays a central role in guiding
behavioral and physiological responses to social and reproductive interactions. Because of …

Background Rodents use olfactory cues for species-specific behaviors. For example, mice
emit odors to attract mates of the same species, but not competitors of closely related …

The rodent vomeronasal organ (VNO) mediates the regulation of species-specific and
interspecies social behaviors. We have used gene targeting to examine the role of the G …

As humans are mammals, it is possible, perhaps even probable, that we have pheromones.
However, there is no robust bioassay-led evidence for the widely published claims that four …

The mechanisms by which odors induce instinctive behaviors are largely unknown. Odor
detection in the mouse nose is mediated by> 1, 000 different odorant receptors (ORs) and …