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SUBMITTER: Gilad Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC314465 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gilad Yoav Y Przeworski Molly M Lancet Doron D
PLoS biology 20040120 1
Olfactory receptor (OR) genes constitute the molecular basis for the sense of smell and are encoded by the largest gene family in mammalian genomes. Previous studies suggested that the proportion of pseudogenes in the OR gene family is significantly larger in humans than in other apes and significantly larger in apes than in the mouse. To investigate the process of degeneration of the olfactory repertoire in primates, we estimated the proportion of OR pseudogenes in 19 primate species by surveyi ...[more]