Vomeronasal organ primates

Aujard F. (1997). Effect of vomeronasal organ removal on male sociosexual responses to females in a prosimian primate (Microcebus murinus). Physiol Behav 62, 1003-1008. 

Bhatnagar K. and Meisami E. (1998). Vomeronasal organ in bats and primates extremes of structural variability and its phylogenetic implications. Microsc Res Tech 43, 465-475. 

Evans C.S. and Grigorieva E.V. (1995). Morphology of the vomeronasal organ in two South American primates, Red-Bellied Tamarin (Saguinus labiatus) and Dwarf Marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) histology and lectin histochemistry. Adv Biosciences 93, 31-42. 

Hunter A.J., Fleming D. and Dixson A. (1984). The structure of the vomeronasal organ and nasopalatine ducts in Aotus trivirgatus and some other primate species. J Anat 138, 217-225. 

Pheromones play roles such as the time-tested topics menstrual synchrony and mother-infant olfactory communication, as well as the more controversial topics of the role of pheromones in human mate choice and the existence or non-existence of a vomeronasal organ in humans and Old World primates, Especially fascinating is a table published by Wyatt [8] detailing odours associated with various human illnesses (i.e. patients with gout or schizophrenia have differing, distinct odours to their sweat), and another table listing various commercial products, both past and present, that contain pheromones. 

Jordan, J. 1972. The vomeronasal organ (of Jacobson) in primates. Folia Morphol. (Warsz.), 31, 418—432. 

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