Inter- and intra- individual variability
With the odorants L-cysteine and D-proline the difference in detection thresholds between the best scoring animal and the poorest scoring animal was a factor of 3. With the odorants D-cysteine and D-methionine the difference was a factor of 33. With L-methionine the difference was a factor of 100. With the last amino acid, L-proline, the difference was a factor of 0.
When examining the individual performance of the mice I found that all individuals were among the best scoring with at least one odorant and among the poorest with another odorant.
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