A whiff of genome

Thomas Boehm ()
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Thomas Boehm: Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, 79108 Freiburg, Germany.

Nature, 2013, vol. 496, issue 7445, 304-305

Abstract: The relatedness of animals influences their behaviour, but how do they detect their kin? It seems that nasal sensory neurons differentiate between minute structural differences in urinary peptides that reflect genetic variation.

Date: 2013
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