Sentences with phrase «functional olfactory receptor»
The team estimates that the kakapo has 667 functional olfactory receptor genes.
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They form a functional complex with another protein, the so - called olfactory receptor co-receptor, which enables insects to smell the tiniest amounts of odor molecules in their environment very rapidly.
For humans approximately two - thirds of these receptors are no longer functional, possibly a consequence of the reduced importance of olfactory function for humans as compared to rodents or dogs, for example.
Vomeronasal receptor (A) and olfactory receptor genes (B) annotated as functional (black) are expressed at significantly higher levels than those annotated as nonfunctional pseudogenes (grey).