Olfaction is a chemical sense, not a spectral sense

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages

  Hettinger, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

9 CYCLOHEPTADECEN 1 ONE; ACETOPHENONE; ALCOHOL; DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPE; KETONE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; DROSOPHILA; ELECTRON; HEARING; HUMAN; INELASTIC ELECTRON TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; LETTER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SPECTROSCOPY; VIBRATION; VISION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SENSATION; SMELL; VIBRATION;

EID: 79961230917     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103992108     Document Type: Letter

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