sensillar lymph

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cellular mechanisms in chemoreception

  • Chemoreception
    In chemoreception: Perireceptor events

    …bathed in a fluid called sensillar lymph that is analogous to the mucus of vertebrates. In the olfactory system this fluid contacts odor-binding receptors that presumably function in the same way as those of vertebrates but that are produced by different families of genes. Three families of these receptor proteins…

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