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The human olfactory receptor repertoire

Sergey Zozulya*, Fernando Echeverri and Trieu Nguyen

Genome Biology 2001, 2:research0018-research0018.12 doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-6-research0018

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Purinergic receptor antagonists inhibit odorant-mediated CREB phosphorylation in sustentacular cells of mouse olfactory epithelium

Ruth Dooley, Anastasia Mashukova, Bastian Toetter, Hanns Hatt, Eva M Neuhaus BMC Neuroscience 2011, 12:86 (22 August 2011)

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Amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae) has orthologs of vertebrate odorant receptors

Allison M Churcher, John S Taylor BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:242 (5 October 2009)

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Co-regulation of a large and rapidly evolving repertoire of odorant receptor genes

Marijo B Kambere, Robert P Lane BMC Neuroscience 2007, 8(Suppl 3):S2 (18 September 2007)

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Characterizing the expression of the human olfactory receptor gene family using a novel DNA microarray

Xiaohong Zhang, Omar De la Cruz, Jayant M Pinto, Dan Nicolae, Stuart Firestein, Yoav Gilad Genome Biology 2007, 8:R86 (17 May 2007)

Using a microarray, expression of 76% of predicted human olfactory receptor genes was detected in olfactory epithelia, and many were expressed in non-olfactory tissues.

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The repertoire of olfactory C family G protein-coupled receptors in zebrafish: candidate chemosensory receptors for amino acids

Tyler S Alioto, John Ngai BMC Genomics 2006, 7:309 (8 December 2006)

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A probabilistic classifier for olfactory receptor pseudogenes

Idan Menashe, Ronny Aloni, Doron Lancet BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7:393 (29 August 2006)

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The odorant receptor repertoire of teleost fish

Tyler S Alioto, John Ngai BMC Genomics 2005, 6:173 (6 December 2005)

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Odorant receptor expressed sequence tags demonstrate olfactory expression of over 400 genes, extensive alternate splicing and unequal expression levels

Janet M Young, Benjamin M Shykind, Robert P Lane, Lori Tonnes-Priddy, Joseph A Ross, Megan Walker, Eleanor M Williams, Barbara J Trask Genome Biology 2003, 4:R71 (7 October 2003)

Previous computational analyses have identified approximately 1,500 mouse olfactory receptors, but experimental evidence confirming olfactory function is available for very few receptors. A mouse olfactory epithelium cDNA library was screened to obtain olfactory receptor expressed sequence tags, providing evidence of olfactory function for many additional olfactory receptors, as well as identifying gene structure and putative promoter regions.

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Smelling of roses?

Sue Povey, Hester Wain Genome Biology 2002, 3:interactions1003-interactions1003.2 (31 May 2002)

A response to What's in a name? By Gregory Petsko, Genome Biology 2002, 3:comment 1005.1-1005.2.

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The olfactory receptor family album

Chiquito Crasto, Michael S Singer, Gordon M Shepherd Genome Biology 2001, 2:reviews1027-reviews1027.4 (14 September 2001)

Analysis of the human genome draft sequences has revealed a more complete portrait of the olfactory receptor gene repertoire in humans than was available previously. The new information provides a basis for deeper analysis of the functions of the receptors, and promises new insights into the evolutionary history of the family.