Pheromone responsible for male mouse 'sex appeal'
Friday, June 4, 2010 - 11:50
in Biology & Nature
The researchers have named the pheromone 'darcin,' after Jane Austen's hero in Pride and Prejudice, Mr Darcy. Darcin stimulates females to 'learn' an individual male's scent, reinforcing their memory of sexual attraction to that same male...
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