Adaptation of olfactory receptor abundances for efficient coding

Olfactory receptor usage is highly heterogeneous, with some receptor types being orders of magnitude more abundant than others. We propose an explanation for this striking fact: the receptor distribution is tuned to maximally represent information about the olfactory environment in a regime of effic...

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Main Authors: Tiberiu Teşileanu, Simona Cocco, Rémi Monasson, Vijay Balasubramanian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-02-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/39279