Ionotropic crustacean olfactory receptors.

The nature of the olfactory receptor in crustaceans, a major group of arthropods, has remained elusive. We report that spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus, express ionotropic receptors (IRs), the insect chemosensory variants of ionotropic glutamate receptors. Unlike insects IRs, which are expressed in a...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth A Corey, Yuriy Bobkov, Kirill Ukhanov, Barry W Ache
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3615998?pdf=render

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