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Pheromone reception in fruit flies expressing a moth's odorant receptor.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 31 Oct 2006
Syed Zainulabeuddin, Ishida Yuko, Taylor Katherine, Kimbrell Deborah A, Leal Walter S
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We have expressed a male-specific, pheromone-sensitive odorant receptor (OR), BmorOR1, from the silkworm moth Bombyx mori in an "empty neuron" housed in the ab3 sensilla of a Drosophila Deltahalo mutant. Single-sensillum recordings showed that the BmorOR1-expressing neurons in the transgenic flie...
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