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Chapter 14: The Somatic Senses.

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Chapter 15: The Visual System: Retina.

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Chapter 16: The Visual System: Higher Visual Processing.

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Chapter 17: Hearing and Other Vibration Senses.

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Chapter 18: Chemical Senses.

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Firestein, S. (1991) A noseful of odor receptors. Trends in Neurosciences, 14, 270-272.

Firestein, S. and F. Zufall. (1994) The cyclic nucleotide gated channel of olfactory receptor neurons. Seminars in Cell Biology, 5, 39-46.

Gibson, A.D. and Garbers, D.L. (2000) Guanylyl Cyclases as a Family of Putative Odorant Receptors. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 23, 417-439.

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Mombaerts, P. (1999) Molecular biology of odorant receptors in vertebrates. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 22, 487-509.

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