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Mice can smell greenhouse gas

Rising CO2 makes a stink for mice.

Mice can smell carbon dioxide at levels just higher than that in normal air, thanks to specialized neurons in their nose.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on August 16, 2007 07:00 PM |

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Very interesting the news of olfactory subsystem studies in mice and irritating behavoir effects under greenhouse gas. Any suggestions about violence in mammals and gas concentrations?

Posted by: Ana Valenzuela | August 20, 2007 04:36 PM

Nice article. Why such an ability evolved in mice (and not us)? And what was the fitness consequence of such an ability? I wonder does it have anything to do with rapid respiration and/or the undergrowth habitat of mice?

Posted by: Mícheal | August 22, 2007 02:28 PM

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