Information coding in the mammalian olfactory system

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1996, Pages 147-155

  Buck, L B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURON; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030441737     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1996.061.01.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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