Functional coupling of a nematode chemoreceptor to the yeast pheromone response pathway.

Sequencing of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome revealed sequences encoding more than 1,000 G-protein coupled receptors, hundreds of which may respond to volatile organic ligands. To understand how the worm's simple olfactory system can sense its chemical environment there is a need to characte...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Tehseen, Mira Dumancic, Lyndall Briggs, Jian Wang, Amalia Berna, Alisha Anderson, Stephen Trowell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4240545?pdf=render