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Jefferis, G.S.X.E. (2005). Insect olfaction: a map of smell in the brain.  Curr. Biol. 15(17): R668--R670.
FlyBase ID
FBrf0190021
Publication Type
Review
Abstract
Humans use three classes of photoreceptor to span the visible spectrum, but smell relies on hundreds of distinct classes of olfactory receptor neuron. Even the simple fruitfly has around 50 classes of olfactory receptor neuron. Two new studies map the projections of the great majority of these neurons into stereotyped positions in the fly brain, giving us an almost complete atlas of olfactory information transfer.
PubMed ID
16139199
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DOI
10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.033
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Erratum

Insect olfaction: a map of smell in the brain (vol 15, pg R668, 2005).
Jefferis, 2005, Curr. Biol. 15(20): 1886 [FBrf0190022]

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    Language of Publication
    English
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    Publication Type
    Journal
    Abbreviation
    Curr. Biol.
    Title
    Current Biology
    Publication Year
    1991-
    ISBN/ISSN
    0960-9822
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