Positive Selection during the Diversification of Class I Vomeronasal Receptor-like (V1RL) Genes, Putative Pheromone Receptor Genes, in Human and Primate Evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1805-1810

  Mundy, Nicholas I ^a   Cook, Shelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Positive selection; Primate; V1R; V1RL1; Vomeronasal organ; Vomeronasal receptor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; VOMERONASAL RECEPTOR LIKE GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATES; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE;

PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242497874     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg192     Document Type: Article

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