Sentences with phrase «large olfactory receptor»

For instance, in the human genome we still see the remnants of the large olfactory receptor gene family that gave our evolutionary ancestors a keen sense of smell, even though humans no longer rely on them.

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The researchers identified more than 1000 olfactory receptors in the soft - shell turtle, which is one of the largest numbers ever to be found in a non-mammalian vertebrate.

Each odor - detecting neuron (referred to as olfactory sensory neuron from here on), chooses a single odorant receptor gene from a fairly large number of options that are split into class I (fish - like) and class II (terrestrial - specific) odorant receptors.

The octopus genome contains around 1,800 C2H2 zinc finger transcription factors, the second largest gene family so far discovered in animals (olfactory receptor genes in elephants are the largest at around 2,000).

At around 1,800 genes, it is the second - largest gene family to be discovered in an animal, after the elephant's 2,000 olfactory - receptor genes.