The scent of a man: What odors do female blackbuck find enticing in a male?

(National Centre for Biological Sciences) Jyothi Nair, a student from Uma Ramakrishnan's group at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, collaborated with Shannon Olsson's team, also from NCBS, to develop a pipeline for investigating odors in a quick, efficient way. In a publication in the journal, Ecology and Evolution, the researchers document their evaluation of different odor collection, identification, and analysis techniques, and describe a protocol optimized for la...