Long-Term Exposure to Female Scents Changes Courtship Behavior in Male Mice
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 - 11:41
in Biology & Nature
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a kind of neuron only in male mice that detects a pheromone in female urine. But the sex difference is not hard-wired. Male mice exposed to female scents for months lost the neurons and their interest in courtship.
