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Michael Gliksberg1, Gil Levkowitz1
1Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel.
Neuron
|September 15, 2017
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Social discrimination is regulated by a variety of sensory inputs. In this issue of Neuron, Dulcis et al. (2017) show that chemosensory-mediated kin preference in Xenopus is determined by changes in neurotransmitter composition, which are regulated by specific microRNAs.
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