Smells Familiar: Pheromone-Induced Neurotransmitter Switching Mediates Social Discrimination

摘要

Social discrimination is regulated by a variety of sensory inputs. In this issue of Neuron, Dulcis et al. (2017) show that chemosensory-mediated kin preference in Xenopus is determined by changes in neurotransmitter composition, which are regulated by specific microRNAs.