Evolutionary conserved brainstem circuits encode category, concentration and mixtures of taste

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Vendrell Llopis, Nuria ^a,b   Yaksi, Emre ^a,b,c,d  

^a Belgium   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; EVOLUTION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TASTE; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84949515634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17825     Document Type: Article

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