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Females can also be from Mars

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Is the preference to mate as a male or a female irreversibly set during development? Apparently not: a study in mice shows that pheromone perception determines how an adult female behaves sexually.

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Figure 1: A new model for the sexual differentiation of behaviour.

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  1. Nirao M. Shah is in the Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, 1550 4th Street, MC2722, San Francisco, California 94158, USA. nms@ucsf.edu,

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  2. S. Marc Breedlove is in the Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, 108 Giltner Hall, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA. breedsm@msu.edu,

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