Selected Reviews

Mombaerts, P. (2006). Axonal wiring in the mouse olfactory system. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 22, 713-737.

Mombaerts, P. (2004). Odorant receptor gene choice in olfactory sensory neurons: the one receptor-one neuron hypothesis revisited. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 14, 31-36.

Mombaerts, P. (2004). Genes and ligands for odorant, vomeronasal and taste receptors. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 5, 263-278.

Mombaerts, P. (2004). Love at first smell – The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. N. Engl. J. Med. 351, 2579-2580.

Mombaerts, P. (2003). Therapeutic cloning in the mouse. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 11924-11925.

Mombaerts, P. (2001). How smell develops. Nature Neurosci. 4 Suppl,1192-1198.

Mombaerts, P. (1999). Seven-transmembrane proteins as odorant and chemosensory receptors. Science 286, 707-711.

Selected Publications

Leinders-Zufall, T., Ishii, T., Mombaerts, P., Zufall, F., and Boehm, T. (2009). Structural requirements for the activation of vomeronasal sensory neurons by MHC peptides. Nat. Neurosci. 12, 1551-1558.

Grosmaitre, X., Fuss, S.H., Lee, A.C., Adipietro, K.A., Matsunami H., Mombaerts, P., and Ma, M. (2009). SR1, a mouse odorant receptor with an unusually broad response profile. J. Neurosci. 29, 14545-14552.

Bozza, T., Vassalli, A., Fuss, S., Zhang, J., Weiland, B., Pacifico, R., Feinstein, P., and Mombaerts, P. (2009). Mapping of class I and class II odorant receptors to glomerular domains by two distinct types of olfactory sensory neurons in the mouse. Neuron 61, 220-233.

Li, J., and Mombaerts, P. (2008). Nuclear transfer-mediated rescue of the nuclear genome of nonviable mouse cells frozen without cryoprotectant. Biol. Reprod. 79, 588-593.

Ishii, T., and Mombaerts, P. (2008). Expression of non-classical class I major histocompatibility genes defines a tripartite organization of the mouse vomeronasal system. J. Neurosci. 28, 2332-2341.

Fuss, S.H., Omura, M., and Mombaerts, P. (2007). Local and cis effects of the H element on expression of odorant receptor genes in mouse. Cell 130, 373-384.

Li, J., Greco, V., Guasch, G., Fuchs, E., and Mombaerts, P. (2007). Mice cloned from skin cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 2738-2743.

Hirota, J., Omura, M., and Mombaerts, P. (2007). Differential impact of Lhx2 deficiency on expression of class I and class II odorant receptor genes in mouse. Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 34, 679-688.

Li, J., Ishii, T., Wen, D., and Mombaerts, P. (2005). Non-equivalence of cloned and clonal mice. Curr. Biol. 15, R756-757.

Rothman, A., Feinstein, P., Hirota, J., and Mombaerts, P. (2005). The promoter of the mouse odorant receptor gene M71. Mol. Cell. Neurosci. 28, 535-546.

Feinstein, P., Bozza, T., Rodriguez, I., Vassalli, A., and Mombaerts, P. (2004). Axon guidance of mouse olfactory sensory neurons by odorant receptors and the β2 adrenergic receptor. Cell 117, 833-846.

Feinstein, P., and Mombaerts, P. (2004). A contextual model for axonal sorting into glomeruli in the mouse olfactory system. Cell 117, 817-831.

Li, J., Ishii, T., Feinstein, P., and Mombaerts, P. (2004). Odorant receptor gene choice is reset by nuclear transfer from mouse olfactory sensory neurons. Nature 428, 393-399.

Del Punta, K., Leinders-Zufall, T., Rodriguez, I., Jukam, D., Wysocki, C.J., Ogawa, S., Zufall, F., and Mombaerts, P. (2002). Deficient pheromone responses in mice lacking a cluster of vomeronasal receptor genes. Nature 419, 70-74.

Del Punta, K., Puche, A., Adams, N.C., Rodriguez, I., and Mombaerts, P. (2002). A divergent pattern of sensory axonal projections is rendered convergent by second-order neurons in the accessory olfactory bulb. Neuron 35, 1057-1066.

Vassalli, A., Rothman, A., Feinstein, P., Zapotocky, M., and Mombaerts, P. (2002). Minigenes impart odorant receptor-specific axon guidance in the olfactory bulb. Neuron 35, 681-696.

Bozza, T., Feinstein, P., Zheng, C., and Mombaerts, P. (2002). Odorant receptor expression defines functional units in the mouse olfactory system. J. Neurosci. 22, 3033-3043.

Rodriguez, I., Del Punta, K., Rothman, A., Ishii, T., and Mombaerts, P. (2002). Multiple new and isolated families within the mouse superfamily of V1r vomeronasal receptors. Nature Neurosci. 5, 134-139.

Wakayama, T., Tabar, V., Rodriguez, I., Perry, A.C.F., Studer, L., and Mombaerts, P. (2001). Differentiation of embryonic stem cell lines generated from adult somatic cells by nuclear transfer. Science 292, 740-743.

Wakayama, T., Rodriguez, I., Perry, A.C.F., Yanagimachi, R., and Mombaerts, P. (1999). Mice cloned from embryonic stem cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 14984-14989.

Rodriguez, I., Feinstein, P., and Mombaerts, P. Variable patterns of axonal projections of sensory neurons in the mouse vomeronasal system. (1999). Cell 97, 199-208.

 

Research Group Dr. Hartwig Spors – Selected Publications

T. Künsting, H. Spors. (2009) Dynamics of Input Patterns Modulate the Behavior of a Model of Olfactory Bulb Function. J Neurophysiol. 102(1): 100-109.

C.P.J. de Kock, R.M. Bruno, H. Spors, B. Sakmann. (2007) Layer and cell type specific supra-threshold stimulus representation in primary somatosensory cortex. J Physiol. 581(Pt 1):139-54. Epub 2007 Feb 22.

J. Reidl, J. Starke, D.B. Omer, A. Grinvald, H. Spors, (2007) Independent Component Analysis of high-resolution imaging data identifies distinct functional domains. NeuroImage 34(1):94-108. Epub 2006 Oct 25.

A.T. Schaefer, K. Angelo, H. Spors, T.W. Margrie. (2006) Neuronal Oscillations Enhance Stimulus Discrimination by Ensuring Action Potential Precision. PLoS Biology 4(6):e163.

H. Spors, M. Wachowiak, L.B. Cohen, R.W. Friedrich, (2006) Temporal dynamics and latency patterns of receptor neuron input to the olfactory bulb. J. Neurosci 26:1247-1259.

N. M. Abraham, H. Spors, A. Carleton, T. W. Margrie, T. Kuner, A. T. Schaefer. (2004). Maintaining Accuracy at the Expense of Speed: Stimulus Similarity Defines Odor Discrimination Time in Mice. Neuron, 44, (5),:865-76

H. Spors, A. Grinvald (2002). Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Odor Representations in the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb. Neuron, 34(2), 301-315.