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 […]