A report in Nature describes a physiological screen used to identify a previously unknown chemical signal in mouse urine. The chemical's selective response in the olfactory bulb raises interesting questions for how socially relevant odors are encoded.
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Nodari, F., Holy, T. Olfactory coding: sniffing out signals. Nat Neurosci 8, 406–407 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0405-406
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