Male mice hard-wired to recognize sex of other mice

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 - 08:50 in Biology & Nature

A male mouse identifies the sex of an unfamiliar mouse because of hard-wired brain physiology, not previous experience, Stanford University School of Medicine investigators have found. The researchers identified, for the first time in mammals, a small number of neurons in the male mouse brain driving a sexually inexperienced animal’s ability to speedily determine another’s sex. Female […]

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