ambergris: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - An odorant receptor for a key odor constituent of ambergris. Oct 23, 2026
Add new Web site: Australian Government - Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - Ambergris. Jan 21, 2026
Add new Web site: Communications Biology - An odorant receptor for a key odor constituent of ambergris. Dec 11, 2025
Add new Web site: University of Plymouth - PEARL - The age of ambergris. (PDF). Oct 21, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Scent from the sea: Ambergris in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medicine, perfume, and natural history (PDF). Mar 26, 2025
Add new Web site: Smithsonian Ocean - The Mystery of Ambergris. Jan 16, 2025
Add new Web site: ACS Publications - Efforts toward Ambergris Biosynthesis. Aug 01, 2024
Add new Web site: Whale and Dolphin Conservation - Ambergris: lucky, lucrative and legal? May 29, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - An odorant receptor for a key odor constituent of ambergris. Apr 19, 2024
Add new Web site: The University of Chicago Press - The Origin of Ambergris. Dec 28, 2023
Changed the scientific name of the sperm whale from Physeter catodon to Physeter macrocephalus. Oct 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Scent from the sea: Ambergris in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medicine, perfume, and natural history (PDF). Sep 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Natural History Museum - What is Ambergris? Feb 26, 2018
Media added. Aug 28, 2008
Article revised. Jul 11, 2002
Article revised. Mar 16, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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