Identification of non-functional human VNO receptor genes provides evidence for vestigiality of the human VNO

Chemical Senses

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1167-1174

  Kouros Mehr, Hosein ^a   Pintchovski, Sean ^a   Melnyk, Jim ^a   Chen, Yu Jiun ^a   Friedman, Cynthia ^b   Trask, Barbara ^b   Shizuya, Hiroaki ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PHEROMONE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CENTROMERE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMELLING; TELOMERE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035204550     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/26.9.1167     Document Type: Article

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