Subjects as diverse as the smell of the pine woods in Michigan, the nature of Parisian cafés, and the quality of Simenon's writing are treated with stream of consciousness digressions.
Thus, a nocturnal bird that has evolved more OR genes might be able to smell more diverse odorants than a diurnal bird that lives in the same habitat.
Another relevant observation is that mixtures containing many (>20) diverse odorants tend to smell alike, even if they don't share any molecular components (Weiss et al., 2012), a phenomenon that has been termed 'olfactory white', in analogy to the 'white' percept associated with a mix of many colored lights.
A special Oscar was also awarded to Ernest Lehman, 85, whose credits include such diverse films as "The Sweet Smell of Success" (1957), "North by Northwest" (1959) and "West Side Story" (1961).
The Delta is a tidal estuary, with changing salinity that has produced a diverse ecosystem including the Delta smelt, a small fish found only there, and the Chinook salmon.
Despite their crucial role in mediating such diverse physiological processes as sight, smell, and the response to hormones and neurotransmitters, extremely little is known about these receptors at the structural level.
We conclude that the loss of MAGI-1 function does not affect adaptation but impairs associative learning independently of the type of sensory input, as we found that MAGI-1 is required for the association of a food starvation signal with diverse environmental stimuli such as smell, taste or temperature.
Diversity is, instead, diverse.
He and his colleagues analysed the antifreeze of diverse species and found that three herring, smelt and sea raven have nearly identical antifreeze proteins, even though they do not share a recent common ancestor.
Terpenes are primary components of essential oils and are often strong smelling, responsible for a diverse array of natural aromas.
The Vienna of the 1920s was as culturally diverse as New York City is today but unlike New York today it smelled of decay.
