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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"insect olfactory system"”.
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Functional Evolution of Odorant Binding Proteins Genes in Drosophila melanogaster
… odorant recognition in a functionally redundant system. Odorant binding proteins (OBPs) are the first components of the insect olfactory system to encounter odorants. Despite their abundant expression, little is known about their role in chemosensation, largely due to the lack of available …
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Structure-Function Analysis of Insect Olfactory Receptors
… into an internal representation of the world. Insects employ their keen sense of smell for a variety of tasks including location of food sources, which can vary from yeast growing on ripe fruits for the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster to mammals for blood-feeding insects such as the …