Widespread losses of vomeronasal signal transduction in bats

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-12

  Zhao, Huabin ^a,b   Xu, Dong ^a   Zhang, Shuyi ^a   Zhang, Jianzhi ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

bats; olfaction; pseudogenization; Trpc2; vomeronasal system

Indexed keywords

TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 2;

ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PSEUDOGENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIROPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL; TRPC CATION CHANNELS; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

CHIROPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650426649     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq207     Document Type: Article

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