Extreme expansion of the olfactory receptor gene repertoire in African elephants and evolutionary dynamics of orthologous gene groups in 13 placental mammals

Olfactory receptors (ORs) detect odors in the environment, and OR genes constitute the largest multigene family in mammals. Numbers of OR genes vary greatly among species—reflecting the respective species' lifestyles—and this variation is caused by frequent gene gains and losses during evolutio...

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Autores principales: Niimura, Yoshihito, Matsui, Atsushi, Touhara, Kazushige
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25053675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.169532.113

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25053675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.169532.113

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