Mother Mice Are More Attuned to Pup Sounds than Are Other Mice
<em>Christoph Schreiner, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery and a member of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF, is senior author of a study reported in PLoS Biology on the way in which auditory neurons detect and discriminate vocalizations. Robert Liu, PhD, the first author of the study, began the work while a postdoctoral fellow in the Schreiner lab. He is now assistant professor of biology at Emory University.</em>