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Science 21 February 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5610, p. 1163
DOI: 10.1126/science.299.5610.1163a
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Snooty Exchanges Are Key to Mouse Society

Greg Miller

On page 1196, neuroscientists report a major step toward understanding how pheromone cues are processed in the brain. By recording the electric chatter of neurons in the accessory olfactory bulb (AOB) of mice as they sniff another mouse, the researchers have discovered neurons that vary their activity in response to the sex and genetic strain of the sniffee. This suggests that the AOB extracts important social information from pheromonal cues.

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