Researchers explain how animals sense potentially harmful acids

Monday, May 16, 2011 - 12:00 in Biology & Nature

All animals face the challenge of deciding which chemicals in the environment are useful and which are harmful. A new study greatly improves our understanding of how animals sense an important class of potentially harmful chemicals: weak acids. The study appears online on May 16 in the Journal of General Physiology.

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