Deficient pheromone responses in mice lacking a cluster of vomeronasal receptor genes

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6902, 2002, Pages 70-74

  Del Punta, Karina ^a   Leinders Zufall, Trese ^b   Rodriguez, Ivan ^a,d   Jukam, David ^a   Wysocki, Charles J ^c   Ogawa, Sonoko ^a   Zufall, Frank ^b   Mombaerts, Peter ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GENES;

PHEROMONE RESPONSES;

NEUROLOGY;

PHEROMONE;

MAMMAL; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CHROMOSOME; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR GENE; REPRODUCTION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DEPRESSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESTROUS CYCLE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; LIGANDS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SMELL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037026572     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00955     Document Type: Article

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