Expression of candidate pheromone receptor genes in vomeronasal neurons

Chemical Senses

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 467-475

  Dulac, Catherine ^a   Axel, Richard ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PHEROMONE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA LIBRARY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE ISOLATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; STEREOTYPY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031842381     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/23.4.467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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