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Chem. Senses 24: 127-136, 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999

The Vomeronasal Organ of the Male Ferret

Elke Weiler1,2, Raimund Apfelbach2 and Albert I. Farbman1

1 Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, 2153 North Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-3520, USA 2 Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tierphysiologie, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

Correspondence to be sent to: Dr Albert I. Farbman, Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, 2153 North Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-3520, USA. e-mail: afarbman{at}nwu.edu

The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is known to play a major role in sexual behavior in many mammals. This study is the first report that the adult male ferret has a VNO, which is considerably smaller and morphologically different from the usually crescentshaped epithelium in several mammalian species, particularly rodents. There were no differences in the size or structure of the ferret VNO between the mating season in spring and the sexually quiescent season in autumn, although plasma testosterone, testis size and brain size are dramatically increased in spring and behavior changes significantly. The histological data suggest that the VNO might be not as important a structure in male ferret sexual behavior as in rodents.


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