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Acts as a kairomone, detected by the prey
vomeronasal organ and inducing fear reactions in mice.
Using OCPI, many thousands of neurons have been imaged simultaneously to record chemosensory responses in the mouse
vomeronasal epithelium, revealing new organizational principles of an entire sensory system (Turaga and Holy, 2012).
When a dog sniffs, some of the air that is taken in passes through specialised nasal cells to an organ known as the
vomeronasal organ.
The prairie vole
vomeronasal organ is a target for gonadotropin-releasing hormone.
Odor-sensing nerve cells in a nose structure called the
vomeronasal organ recognize the odor of male mice and alert the brain.
Specific attention is paid to the loss of the
vomeronasal organ.
The ram uses his
vomeronasal organ sometimes called the Jacobson's organ the pheromones of ewes and detecting when they are in estrus.
In vertebrates, they are coded by six major multigene families: the trace amine-associated receptors (TAAR) [5], the olfactory receptors (OR) [6], the type I and II
vomeronasal receptors (V1R and V2R) [3, 4, 7], and type I and II taste receptors (T1R and T2R) [1, 2].
The
vomeronasal organ (VNO) is an essential functioning organ in some animals.