Co-regulation of a large and rapidly evolving repertoire of odorant receptor genes

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2007, Pages

  Kambere, Marijo B ^a   Lane, Robert P ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMELLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VOMERONASAL ORGAN; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT;

EID: 38449121593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-S3-S2     Document Type: Review

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