Sentences with phrase «olfactory receptor gene family»

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.

They analysed relationships between bats, the exact composition of the MHC genes as well as the molecular structure of three olfactory receptor gene families: TAAR2, TAAR3 and TAAR8.

Not exact matches

In 2004 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel for their research showing that there is a huge family of genes that encode proteins called olfactory receptors.

After analyzing the genes of about a thousand bats, the researchers studied the exact composition of the MHC genes as well as the molecular structure of three families of olfactory receptor genes: TAAR2, TAAR3 and TAAR8.

Focusing their search on receptors not known to respond to any odor, the researchers identified one family of genes that appeared to be expressed in olfactory neurons but not in other tissues.

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.