Primate evolution of an olfactory receptor cluster: Diversification by gene conversion and recent emergence of pseudogenes

Genomics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 24-36

  Sharon, Dror ^a   Glusman, Gustavo ^a   Pilpel, Yitzhak ^a   Khen, Miriam ^a   Gruetzner, Frank ^b   Haaf, Thomas ^b   Lancet, Doron ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME 17P; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RECEPTOR GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

MAMMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032862870     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.5900     Document Type: Article

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