First evidence for functional vomeronasal 2 receptor genes in primates

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hohenbrink, Philipp ^a,b   Mundy, Nicholas I ^b   Zimmermann, Elke ^a   Radespiel, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mouse lemur; Olfaction; V2R; Vomeronasal organ

Indexed keywords

MARSUPIAL; OLFACTION; PHEROMONE; PRIMATE; RODENT;

LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SIMIIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEIROGALEIDAE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

ANIMALS; CHEIROGALEIDAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATES; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; RNA; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

EID: 84872051345     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.1006     Document Type: Article

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