Congratulations to David Ferrero, Qian Li, Dheeraj Roy, and our good friends and collaborators Marc Spehr and Kazushige Touhara for their recent Nature paper. This work identified ESP22 as a juvenile pheromone that inhibits sexual behavior through the vomeronasal system.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7471/full/nature12579.html
More information can be found in articles from:
The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/science/how-young-mice-tell-older-ones...
The Scientist:
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/37744/title/Pherom...
NBC News:
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/pheromone-tears-helps-young-mice-ward-fri...
And a video interview of the lab, "Tears for Fears":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrCPsgPsk_U