Evidence for Adaptive Evolution of Olfactory Receptor Genes in 9 Bird Species

It has been suggested that positive selection, in particular selection favoring a change in the protein sequence, plays a role in the evolution of olfactory receptor (OR) gene repertoires in fish and mammals. ORs are 7-transmembrane domain (TM) proteins, members of the G-protein–coupled receptor sup...

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Published in:Journal of Heredity
Main Authors: Steiger, Silke S., Fidler, Andrew E., Mueller, Jakob C., Kempenaers, Bart
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2010
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Online Access:http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/101/3/325
https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esp105

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