Mammalian pheromones: from genes to behaviour.
Knocking-out selected genes for receptors of the vomeronasal organ has been found to impair specific aspects of pheromone-induced behaviour in the mouse. This is not unexpected; less predictable is the finding that deleting the gene for a vomeronasal-organ-specific ion channel causes gender blindness.
Keverne
Eric B
EB
Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge, High Street, Madingley, Cambridge CB3 8AA, UK. ebk10@cus.cam.ac.uk
D000374:Aggression; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005260:Female; D017353:Gene Deletion; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*