Contribution of pheromones processed by the main olfactory system to mate recognition in female mammals
Until recently it was widely believed that the ability of female mammals (with the likely exception of women) to identify and seek out a male breeding partner relied on the detection of non-volatile male pheromones by the female’s vomeronasal organ and their subsequent processing by a neural circuit...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroanatomy |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnana.2012.00020/full |