The origin of the odorant receptor gene family in insects

The origin of the insect odorant receptor (OR) gene family has been hypothesized to have coincided with the evolution of terrestriality in insects. Missbach et al. (2014) suggested that ORs instead evolved with an ancestral OR co-receptor (Orco) after the origin of terrestriality and the OR/Orco sys...

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Main Authors: Philipp Brand, Hugh M Robertson, Wei Lin, Ratnasri Pothula, William E Klingeman, Juan Luis Jurat-Fuentes, Brian R Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-07-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/38340