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Insight: Chemical Sensing

Vol. 444, No. 7117 pp287-321

Chemical Sensing

Recent work has illuminated the principles by which the taste and olfactory systems decode and represent environmental stimuli. Continued work in this field promises to explain how taste and smell contribute so richly to our experience of the world, and should also help to tackle serious practical problems, such as the control of disease-bearing insects.

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Editorial

Chemical sensing

I-han Chou, Tanguy Chouard, John E. Spiro and Lesley Anson

doi:10.1038/444287a

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Reviews

The receptors and cells for mammalian taste

Jayaram Chandrashekar, Mark A. Hoon, Nicholas J. P. Ryba and Charles S. Zuker

doi:10.1038/nature05401

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Comparative chemosensation from receptors to ecology

Cornelia I. Bargmann

doi:10.1038/nature05402

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Insects as chemosensors of humans and crops

Wynand van der Goes van Naters and John R. Carlson

doi:10.1038/nature05403

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Pheromonal communication in vertebrates

Peter A. Brennan and Frank Zufall

doi:10.1038/nature05404

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Smell images and the flavour system in the human brain

Gordon M. Shepherd

doi:10.1038/nature05405

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