A comparison of reptilian and avian olfactory receptor gene repertoires: Species-specific expansion of group γ genes in birds
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- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Genomics
- Vol. 10 (1) , 446
Abstract
The detection of odorants is mediated by olfactory receptors (ORs). ORs are G-protein coupled receptors that form a remarkably large protein superfamily in vertebrate genomes. We used data that became available through recent sequencing efforts of reptilian and avian genomes to identify the complete OR gene repertoires in a lizard, the green anole (Anolis carolinensis), and in two birds, the chicken (Gallus gallus) and the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).Keywords
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