Chemosensory behavior: The path from stimulus to response

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 766-771

  Lessing, Derek ^a   Carlson, John R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMORECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; TASTE BUD;

EID: 0032763134     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)00035-5     Document Type: Review

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