Origin and evolution of the vertebrate vomeronasal system viewed through system-specific genes

BioEssays

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 709-718

  Grus, Wendy E ^a   Zhang, Jianzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRPC2 CHANNEL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MARKER GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL GENE; TELEOST; V1R GENE; V2R GENE; VERTEBRATE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; VOMERONASAL RECEPTOR GENE;

ANIMALS; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VERTEBRATES; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

MAMMALIA; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33747451329     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20432     Document Type: Review

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