Choi Gloria B, Anderson David J
Division of Biology 216-76, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
Cell. 2005 Nov 18;123(4):550-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.11.004.
The standard view that the control of mating behavior by pheromones is mediated by the vomeronasal organ, and not by the main olfactory epithelium, has recently been called into question. In this issue of Cell, two independent studies (Boehm et al., 2005; Yoon et al., 2005) examine the inputs from each of these olfactory pathways to a population of neurons that plays a central role in mating behavior.
认为信息素对交配行为的控制是由犁鼻器介导而非主要嗅觉上皮介导的标准观点,最近受到了质疑。在本期《细胞》杂志中,两项独立研究(Boehm等人,2005年;Yoon等人,2005年)研究了来自这些嗅觉通路中每一条通路到在交配行为中起核心作用的一群神经元的输入。