It has not been clear which receptors are expressed by these neurons and what role they play in odor perception. (sciencedaily.com)
Perhaps it serves mostly as a reminder that odor perception remains a challenge both for human scientists and artificial intelligence. (sciencemag.org)
According to scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, many proteins involved in the highly sensitive odor perception of insects emerged rather late in the evolutionary process. (sciencedaily.com)