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Chemosensory Systems in Mammals, Fishes, and Insects (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
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Chemosensory Systems in Mammals, Fishes, and Insects (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009)
Series: Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, 47
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The sense of smell has an essential role in locating food,
detecting predators, navigating, and communicating social
information. Accordingly, the olfactory system has evolved complex
repertoires of receptors to face these problems. Although the sense
of taste has less far-reaching tasks, they are every bit as
essential for the animals well-being, allowing it to reject toxic
materials and to select nutritionally valuable food. The last
decade has seen a massive advance in understanding the molecular
logic of chemosensory information processing, beyond that already
achieved in the rst few years following Linda Bucks discovery of
odorant receptors. Shortly afterwards, the major principles of
olfactory representation had been established in mammals as the one
neuron/ one receptor rule and the convergence of neurons, which
express the same receptor, onto individual modules in the olfactory
bulb. In recent years, such studies have been extended to lower
vertebrates, including shes and other phyla, i. e. , arthropods,
worms, and insects, showing both the general validity of these
concepts and some exceptions to the rule. In parallel, hallmarks of
the molecular logic of taste sensation have been deciphered and
found to differ in interesting ways from those of smell sensation.
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