MOUSE TEAR GLAND MARKER. “Darcin provides a good example of the distinction between pheromones and individual odours. Darcin is secreted in the urine that dominant male mice use to mark territory signposts. Females, attracted by volatile urine pheromones, sniff the urine into their second nose, the vomeronasal organ (VNO), where darcin, an involatile pheromone, is detected. Darcin prompts the female to remember the location of the signpost and also the individual odour of the male. She will seek out the male territory owner and mate with him, recognizing him by his individual odour.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022