Tuning Insect Odorant Receptors
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Tuning Insect Odorant Receptors
Citation: Wicher D (2018) Tuning Insect Odorant Receptors. Front. Cell. Neurosci. 12:94. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00094 Among the insect olfactory receptors the odorant receptors (ORs) evolved in parallel to the onset of insect flight. A special property of this receptor type is the capability to adjust sensitivity of odor detection according to previous odor contacts. This article presents a cu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1662-5102
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2018.00094