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Nature 398, 285-287 (25 March 1999) | doi:10.1038/18552
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Olfaction: Good reception in fruitfly antennae
Yitzhak Pilpel1 & Doron Lancet1
Insects have exquisite chemosensory faculties1, 2, 3, — some can sense pheromones from several miles away. Yet although the genes for olfactory receptors in vertebrates4, 5 and the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans6 have been known for years, their insect counterparts have remained elusive.
- Yitzhak Pilpel and Doron Lancet are in the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Genome Center, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel.
e-mail: Email: bnpilpel@membran1.weizmann.ac.il
Email: bmlancet@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il
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