Reply to Hettinger: Olfaction is a physical and a chemical sense in Drosophila

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

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages

  Franco, Maria Isabel ^a   Turin, Luca ^b   Mershin, Andreas ^c   Skoulakis, Efthimios M C ^b  

^a CIC BIOGUNE   (Spain)

^b BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM;

DROSOPHILA; HEARING; LETTER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SMELLING; TASTE; VISION;

EID: 79961237501     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107618108     Document Type: Letter

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