Sensory sea slugs: Towards decoding the molecular toolkit required for a mollusk to smell

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 423-426

  Cummins, Scott F ^a   Degnan, Bernard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

G protein coupled receptor; Marine; Mollusk; Peptide; Pheromone

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APLYSIA; MOLLUSCA; OPISTHOBRANCHIA;

EID: 84910022161     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.3.5.12091     Document Type: Article

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