Olfactory systems: Common design, uncommon origins?

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 634-639

  Strausfeld, Nicholas J ^a   Hildebrand, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

DENDRITE; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPIL; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 0032861128     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)00019-7     Document Type: Review

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