Odorant and pheromone receptors in insects

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2009, Pages

  Ha, Tal Soo ^a,b   Smith, Dean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Daegu University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Odorant; Odorant binding proteins; Odorant receptor; Olfaction; Pheromone

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249127864     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.03.010.2009     Document Type: Review

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