ArticleFrontiers in neuroanatomy2009
The risk of extrapolation in neuroanatomy: the case of the Mammalian vomeronasal system.
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- Histochemical Properties of the Vomeronasal System in Hokkaido Sika Deer (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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- The vomeronasal system of the wolf (Canis lupus signatus): The singularities of a wild canid.Journal of anatomy · 2024Article
- Comparative Neuroanatomical Study of the Main Olfactory Bulb in Domestic and Wild Canids: Dog, Wolf and Red Fox.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Neuroanatomical and Immunohistological Study of the Main and Accessory Olfactory Bulbs of the Meerkat (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- De-Scent with Modification: More Evidence and Caution Needed to Assess Whether the Loss of a Pheromone Signaling Protein Permitted the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in Primates.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Article
- Histological and Immunohistochemical Characterization of Vomeronasal Organ Aging in Mice.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- The vomeronasal organ of wild canids: the fox (Vulpes vulpes) as a model.Journal of anatomy · 2020Article
- The vomeronasal system of the newborn capybara: a morphological and immunohistochemical study.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The amygdala of the common shrew, guinea pig, rabbit, fox and pig: five flavours of the mammalian amygdala as a consequence of clade-specific mosaic-like evolution.Journal of anatomy · 2020Article
- Working Smarter Not Harder: Oxytocin Increases Domestic Dogs' (Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Morphological and immunohistochemical study of the rabbit vomeronasal organ.Journal of anatomy · 2018Article
- Signal Detection and Coding in the Accessory Olfactory System.Chemical senses · 2018Review
- Seasonal morphometry of the vomeronasal organ in the marsupial mouse, Antechinus subtropicus.Journal of morphology · 2016Article
- Dog and mouse: toward a balanced view of the mammalian olfactory system.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2014Article
- Morphological and physiological species-dependent characteristics of the rodent Grueneberg ganglion.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2014Article
- Anatomy, histochemistry, and immunohistochemistry of the olfactory subsystems in mice.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2014Article
- One nose, one brain: contribution of the main and accessory olfactory system to chemosensation.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2012Article
- The rodent accessory olfactory system.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2010Review
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Abstract
The sense of smell plays a crucial role in mammalian social and sexual behaviour, identification of food, and detection of predators. Nevertheless, mammals vary in their olfactory ability. One reason for this concerns the degree of development of their pars basalis rhinencephali, an anatomical feature that has been considered in classifying this group of animals as macrosmatic, microsmatic or anosmatic. In mammals, different structures are involved in detecting odours: the main olfactory system, the vomeronasal system (VNS), and two subsystems, namely the ganglion of Grüneberg and the septal organ. Here, we review and summarise some aspects of the comparative anatomy of the VNS and its putative relationship to other olfactory structures. Even in the macrosmatic group, morphological diversity is an important characteristic of the VNS, specifically of the vomeronasal organ and the accessory olfactory bulb. We conclude that it is a big mistake to extrapolate anatomical data of the VNS from species to species, even in the case of relatively close evolutionary proximity between them. We propose to study other mammalian VNS than those of rodents in depth as a way to clarify its exact role in olfaction. Our experience in this field leads us to hypothesise that the VNS, considered for all mammalian species, could be a system undergoing involution or regression, and could serve as one more integrated olfactory subsystem.
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