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The paternally expressed gene Peg3 regulates sexual experience-dependent preferences for estrous odors.
1 Jan 2008
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Sexual experience has marked and long-lasting effects on male behavior in mammals, regulating traits such as the anticipation and display of sexual behavior, aggression, and olfaction. The authors conducted urine preference, habituation-dishabituation, and partner choice tests with sexually experienced and naive male mice and found that wild-type males acquire adaptively significant preferences for the odors of...
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