Response to Kappeler

Mika Shirasu; Satomi Ito; Akihiro Itoigawa; Takashi Hayakawa; Kodzue Kinoshita; Isao Munechika; Hiroo Imai; Kazushige Touhara

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.018

Response to Kappeler

Curr Biol. 2020 Nov 16;30(22):R1360. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.018.

Authors

Mika Shirasu¹, Satomi Ito², Akihiro Itoigawa³, Takashi Hayakawa⁴, Kodzue Kinoshita⁵, Isao Munechika⁶, Hiroo Imai⁵, Kazushige Touhara⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan; ERATO Touhara Chemosensory Signal Project, JST, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan.
² Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Aichi, 484-8506, Japan; The Research Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Tokyo, 158-0098, Japan.
³ Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Aichi, 484-8506, Japan; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, 102-0083, Japan.
⁴ Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan; Japan Monkey Centre, Aichi, 484-0081, Japan.
⁵ Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Aichi, 484-8506, Japan.
⁶ The Research Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Tokyo, 158-0098, Japan.
⁷ Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan; ERATO Touhara Chemosensory Signal Project, JST, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-8657, Japan; WPI International Research Center for Neurointelligence, University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan. Electronic address: ktouhara@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

PMID: 33202231
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.018

Abstract

We sincerely appreciate the constructive comments made by Peter Kappeler [1] regarding our paper, "Key male glandular odorants attracting female ring-tailed lemurs" [2]. We largely agree with the points raised in these comments, and believe these should be considered as critical discussion that would enable a more reasonable assessment of our findings.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Female
Lemur*
Male
Odorants