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Nagel, K. (2023). Olfaction: The smell stops here.  Curr. Biol. 33(4): R146--RR148.
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A recent study has shown that, in the fly Drosophila, olfactory neurons stop signaling when smells get too strong. This changes the way we think about odor encoding across concentrations.
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    English
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    Abbreviation
    Curr. Biol.
    Title
    Current Biology
    Publication Year
    1991-
    ISBN/ISSN
    0960-9822
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