In rodents, where chemical signals play a particularly important role in determining
intraspecies interactions including social dominance and intersexual relationships, various …

There is increasing evidence for specialised processing of social cues in the brain. This
review considers how the main olfactory system of mammals is designed to process social …

Oxytocin promotes social interactions and recognition of conspecifics that rely on olfaction in
most species. The circuit mechanisms through which oxytocin modifies olfactory processing …

Pheromones and other social odor cues convey rich information among rodents. Social
investigation is described as a key element in olfactory communication, which involves …

Male house mice excrete large amounts of protein in their urinary scent marks, mainly
composed of Major Urinary Proteins (MUPs), and these lipocalins function as pheromones …

Background Studies have shown that paternal stress prior to conception can influence the
innate behaviours of their offspring. The evolutionary impacts of such intergenerational …

Individual variation in a specialised set of scent communication proteins, the major urinary
proteins (MUPs), provides a genetic identity signature that underlies individual and kin …

Major evolutionary transitions were always accompanied by genetic remodelling of
phenotypic traits. For example, the vertebrate transition from water to land was accompanied …

Chemical communication plays many key roles in mammalian reproduction, although
attention has focused particularly on male scent signalling. Here, we review evidence that …

Behavioural isolation may lead to complete speciation when partial postzygotic isolation
acts in the presence of divergent‐specific mate‐recognition systems. These conditions exist …