Distinct Signals Conveyed by Pheromone Concentrations to the Mouse Vomeronasal Organ

This work is supported by funding from Stowers Institute and National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Grant 008003 (C.R.Y.). U.S. patent pending (U.S. Patent Application No. 60/863,301, pending) for the tetO-G-CaMP2 mice (Stowers Institute, C.R.Y., L.M.). We thank Drs. W. Wiegraebe and D. Zhu for help on imaging and statistical analyses. We thank E. Gillespie, P. Zelalem, Megan Fracol, G. Hattem, M. Elmore, S. Klinefelter, K. Cavanaugh, and Lab Animal Service Facility and Microscopy Center at Stowers Institute for technical assistance. The ESP-1 plasmid was generously provided by Dr. K. Touhara (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan). We also thank Drs. M. Gibson, R. Krumlauf, H. Y. Mak, and K. Si for thoughtful discussions and critical reading of this manuscript.