Sensing marine biomolecules: Smell, taste, and the evolutionary transition from aquatic to terrestrial life

Frontiers in Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Mollo, Ernesto ^a   Fontana, Angelo ^a   Roussis, Vassilios ^b   Polese, Gianluca ^c   Amodeo, Pietro ^a   Ghiselin, Michael T ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

GPCRs; Gustation; Marine natural products; Odorant receptors; Olfaction; Solubility; Terpenoids; Volatility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987629372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2014.00092     Document Type: Article

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