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In recent years, chemoreceptor physiology has become a field of active research, on preparations ranging from ciliae to mammals. However, it is obvious that insects occupy a central place in the chemical world (Bell and Cardé, 1984). Olfactory or gustatory systems have to react to a considerable number of different molecules. One central question concerns the number of chemoreceptors in a given organ or organism, and the range of their specificity. If there are specific receptors for each molecule or even for each class of molecules, too many different receptors would have to exist, together with an extremely large number of genes coding for them. One possible solution is that there is some coordination of gene function involved.
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Venard, R., Antony, C., Jallon, JM. (1989). Drosophila Chemoreceptors. In: Singh, R.N., Strausfeld, N.J. (eds) Neurobiology of Sensory Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2519-0_24
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