Adrenal cells provide clues to a parental-care puzzle

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Tollkuhn, Jessica
• 署名单位: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• 刊物名称: Nature
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0028-4834
• 发表日期: 2024-05-30
• 页码: 1006-1008
• 关键词: evolution

摘要

Both parents of oldfield mice care for offspring, whereas in deer mice, mothers usually care for pups. The discovery of a type of adrenal-gland cell that is present in oldfield mice but not in deer mice helps to explain the difference.