I Smell a Rat!: (And 999,999,999,999 Other Things, Too)

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 166-171

  Weiss, Ken ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RATTUS;

OLFACTORY RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL;

EID: 84929133767     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: 15206505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.21424     Document Type: Article

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