title: Chemoreception: identifying friends and foes.
abstract: The vomeronasal organ detects chemical cues that trigger sexual, aggressive and defensive behaviors. An in situ hybridization analysis has identified the specificities of nearly a hundred VNO receptors and elucidated the logic by which they encode these cues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA.
authors.forename: Tong-Wey
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Koh
authors.forename: John R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Carlson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds; D002628:Chemoreceptor Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D003463:Cues; D051766:Early Growth Response Protein 1 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals; D051379:Mice; D009812:Odorants; D010675:Pheromones / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D018035:Receptors, Odorant / Q000378:metabolism; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D013045:Species Specificity; D019147:Vomeronasal Organ / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D051766:Early Growth Response Protein 1; C486109:Egr1 protein, mouse; D010675:Pheromones; D018035:Receptors, Odorant