Social behaviors, such as mating, fighting, and parenting, are fundamental for survival of any
vertebrate species. All members of a species express social behaviors in a stereotypical and …

Olfaction is a critical sensory modality that allows living things to acquire chemical
information from the external world. The olfactory system processes two major classes of …

The sequence of the mouse genome is a key informational tool for understanding the
contents of the human genome and a key experimental tool for biomedical research. Here …

This unit presents two basic protocols that offer rapid assessments of anosmia (the absence
of a sense of smell) in mice. The buried food test is used to check for the ability to smell …

The mammalian olfactory system detects chemicals sensed as odours as well as social cues
that stimulate innate responses. Odorants are detected in the nasal olfactory epithelium by …

The instinctive and species-specific behavioural response of animals to pheromones has
intrigued biologists for a long time. Recent molecular and electrophysiological approaches …

The chemical senses (smell and taste) have evolved complex repertoires of chemosensory
receptors—G-protein coupled receptors with a seven-transmembrane domain structure. In …

Several developments during the past 15 years have profoundly affected our understanding
of the vomeronasal system (VNS) of vertebrates. In the mid 1990s, the vomeronasal …

Mammalian pheromones control a myriad of innate social behaviors and acutely regulate
hormone levels. Responses to pheromones are highly robust, reproducible, and stereotyped …

We investigate how the molecular and cellular maps of the Drosophila olfactory system are
integrated. A correspondence is established between individual odor receptors, neurons …