Odorant Receptor Specificities and Receptor Combinatorials: Implications for Olfactory Coding

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عنوان ژورنال: Chemical Senses

سال: 2005

ISSN: 0379-864X,1464-3553

DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh132