Mammalian pheromones control a myriad of innate social behaviors and acutely regulate
hormone levels. Responses to pheromones are highly robust, reproducible, and stereotyped …

Recent insights have revolutionized our understanding of the importance of chemical
signals in influencing vertebrate behaviour. Previously unknown families of pheromonal …

Many mammals use scent marks to advertise territory ownership, but only recently have we
started to understand the complexity of these scent signals and the types of information that …

Detailed analyses of the clone-based genome assembly reveal that the recent duplication
content of mouse (4.94%) is now comparable to that of human (5.5%), in contrast to previous …

Predicting protein–ligand binding free energies is a central aim of computational structure-
based drug design (SBDD) improved accuracy in binding free energy predictions could …

Odorant‐binding proteins (OBPs) of vertebrates belong to the lipocalin superfamily and
perform a dual function: solubilizing and ferrying volatile pheromones to the olfactory …

Their well-developed chemical communication systems make rodents popular in research
that aims to understand the connections between genes, hormones and behaviour …

The urine of mice, rats and some other rodents contains substantial quantities of proteins
that are members of the lipocalin family. The proteins are thought to be responsible for the …

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is widely assumed to be a primary determinant
of individual-recognition scents in many vertebrates [1–6], but there has been no functional …

Scents play key roles in mediating sexual behaviour in many vertebrates, both in the
recognition of opposite sex conspecifics and in assessing the suitability of different …