FOXNews.com - Biologists Learn Why Mice Go Gaga for Urine

Our long global nightmare is over: Biologists Have Learned Why Mice Go Gaga for Urine

"In one of the more bizarre homages to Jane Austen, biologists have named a protein in mice urine after her famed character Mr. Darcy from the novel 'Pride and Prejudice.'

Much like Mr. Darcy had a magnetic pull on Elizabeth Bennet (and countless readers), the protein is a pheromone responsible for attracting female mice to the odor of a particular male. The scientists dubbed the protein 'darcin' after the character from Austen's 1813 novel."