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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that mice use chemical cues, including odors, to detect the social rank of an unfamiliar mouse and compare it to their own, using this information ...

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The cholinergic interneurons were found to be involved in the loser effect, where mice became less dominant after losing competitions, moving down the social rankings. Surprisingly, these same brain ...

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Researchers have shown that mice use chemical cues, including odors, to detect the social rank of an unfamiliar mouse and compare it to their own, using this information to determine their behavior.