Insect olfaction and the evolution of receptor tuning

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Andersson, Martin N ^a   Löfstedt, Christer ^a   Newcomb, Richard D ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Combinatorial coding; Evolution; Odorant receptor; Olfaction; Selectivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938095261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00053     Document Type: Review

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