Tag: olfaction
“Make Mine Dill”
What amazes me is how the female butterflies can smell dill over great distances, and so deposit their eggs on the right plants.
Thanks, Dr. Oz — Our Favorite Super Bowl Ad, a Beautiful Celebration of Complex Senses
Let’s examine the subject in a little more depth than what a commercial can do in a minute and thirty seconds:
“Remarkably,” Odor Code Just Doubled
Olfactory receptors squeeze more data out of odor molecules than previously thought.
“Shared Error” Argument: Olfactory Receptor Genes Prove Common Descent?
The idea here is that, in different species, the same damaging mutation can be found in the same pseudogenes.