The olfactory receptor gene repertoires in secondary-adapted marine vertebrates: Evidence for reduction of the functional proportions in cetaceans

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 428-430

  Kishida, Takushi ^a   Kubota, Shin ^a   Shirayama, Yoshihisa ^a   Fukami, Hironobu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cetacea; Marine and terrestrial environment; Olfactory receptor; Sea lion; Sea turtle; Secondary adapted marine vertebrates

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CETACEAN; DIVERGENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OLFACTORY CUE; TURTLE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CETACEA; DOG; MINKE WHALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PORPOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERM WHALE; ANIMAL; CATTLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TURTLE; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; BOS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CARETTA; CARETTA CARETTA; CETACEA; CHELONIIDAE; EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; KOGIA SIMUS; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; PHOCOENOIDES DALLI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PORPOISES; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEA LIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURTLES; WHALES;

EID: 35248826038     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0191     Document Type: Article

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