Current views on odour receptors

Alexander Chesler and Stuart Firestein
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Alexander Chesler: Columbia University, 923 Fairchild Center, MC 2438, New York, New York 10027, University of California, San Francisco. sjf24@columbia.edu
Stuart Firestein: Columbia University, 923 Fairchild Center, MC 2438, New York, New York 10027, University of California, San Francisco. sjf24@columbia.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 452, issue 7190, 944-944

Abstract: Insects possess refined olfactory systems that use specific receptors on their antennae. It emerges that these receptors not only detect odour molecules but, unexpectedly, can also act as ion channels.

Date: 2008
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