A new family of odorant receptors in Drosophila.
In the fruit fly Drosophila, not all olfactory sensory neurons express a seven transmembrane odorant receptor, suggesting that other types of odorant receptors might exist. Benton et al. (2009) now present evidence that a family of proteins related to ionotropic glutamate receptors is a previously unrecognized class of odorant receptors.
Spletter
Maria L
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Luo
Liqun
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