Category: Taste and Olfaction
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Chemical seascape of mysid shrimp
The cave-dwelling mysid shrimp Hemimysis margalefi can tell the water-borne odor bouquet, the chemical seascape, characteristic of their home cave. They chose to spend time in home water rather than water from similar but foreign caves. Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with high-resolution mass spectrometry was used to identify differences in odor-producing metabolites between the caves. These…