Degeneration of the Olfactory Guanylyl Cyclase D Gene during Primate Evolution
Janet M. Young, Hang Waters, Cora Dong et al. · 2007
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Janet Young, Hang Waters, Cora Dong and colleagues traced the decay of a smell gene across primate history, in PLOS ONE in 2007. The sense of smell rests on several subsystems, each tuned to its own set of chemical cues. In the main smell tissue, at least three types of sensing cells can be told apart by the genes they use.
One of those genes, for an enzyme called guanylyl cyclase D, has been breaking down in primates. The team followed that decline across species. A gene that fades this way tells a story about changing needs: as sight grew stronger in primates, some parts of smell may have mattered less.
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| CREATOR | Janet M. Young, Hang Waters, Cora Dong et al. |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000884