Divergent V1R repertoires in five species: Amplification in rodents, decimation in primates, and a surprisingly small repertoire in dogs

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 231-240

  Young, Janet M ^a   Kambere, Marijo ^b   Trask, Barbara J ^b   Lane, Robert P ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; VASOPRESSIN V1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENOTE; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSEUDOGENES; RATS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SYNTENY; VARIATION (GENETICS); VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 14644438648     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3339905     Document Type: Article

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