Sex Pheromone Named for Jane Austen Character Alters Brain in Mouse Courtship
But the same cannot be said for a sex pheromone named for him, called darcin.
- But the same cannot be said for a sex pheromone named for him, called darcin.
- These findings, published today in Nature, illustrate the power of a single protein to change the brain and drive behavior.
- Darcin is one such pheromone, discovered in 2010 by Robert Beynon, PhD , and Jane Hurst, PhD , and their team at the University of Liverpool .
- Dr. Hurst and her colleagues found that male mice release darcin in their urine to mark their territory and to initiate courtship displays.