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Sensory organ holds key to hot mouse sexFemales get as randy as males when vomeronasal function WASHINGTON - Female mice became sexually voracious and tried to mate like males after scientists disabled a small sensory organ, casting fresh light on how gender-specific behavior develops in animals.The difference seems to lie in how male and female mice use the vomeronasal organ to process pheromones, said Catherine Dulac, the Harvard biologist who led the research published in the journal Nature on Sunday.Pheromones are chemical signals that many animals, including humans, use to communicate socially and sexually. The vomeronasal organ, found in the noses of some animals but not in people or higher primates, is a key processing center for pheromones.