“…Transgenic silencing and physical ablation of the VNO established that the AOS is essential for several aspects of rodent social behavior (Keller, et al, 2006; Stowers, et al, 2002). The AOB itself has also been targeted for selective manipulation in the context of social behavior (Brennan, et al, 1990; Kunkhyen, et al, 2017; Otsuka, et al, 2001). Despite the increased availability of cell type-specific transgenic tools for neuroscience, there are few tools that are selective enough to help delineate the functions of the several classes of neurons in the AOB (Cansler, et al, 2017; Gao, et al, 2017; Maksimova, et al, 2019; Zhang, et al, 2020).…”