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SUBMITTER: Pfister P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC556222 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pfister Patrick P Rodriguez Ivan I
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050404 15
Sensory neurons expressing members of the seven-transmembrane V1r receptor superfamily allow mice to perceive pheromones. These receptors, which exhibit no sequence homology to any known protein except a weak similarity to taste receptors, have only been found in mammals. In the mouse, the V1r repertoire contains >150 members, which are expressed by neurons of the vomeronasal organ, a structure present exclusively in some tetrapod species. Here, we report the existence of a single V1r gene in mu ...[more]