The tangled history of olfaction in African mole-rats, Bathyergidae: insights from Olfactory Receptor genes

The tangled history of olfaction in African mole-rats, Bathyergidae: insights from Olfactory Receptor genes

Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references. === This thesis reports the first assessment of OR variation in Bathyergidae, and therefore, the first for a family of subterranean mammals. Using a PCR-sequencing approach, 178 unique OR sequences, corresponding to 119 unique OR genes are...

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Main Author: Stathopoulos, Sofia
Other Authors: Bishop, Jacqueline M
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2015
Subjects:
Cell Biology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11345
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spelling ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-113452020-07-22T05:07:38Z The tangled history of olfaction in African mole-rats, Bathyergidae: insights from Olfactory Receptor genes Stathopoulos, Sofia Bishop, Jacqueline M O'Ryan, Colleen Cell Biology Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. This thesis reports the first assessment of OR variation in Bathyergidae, and therefore, the first for a family of subterranean mammals. Using a PCR-sequencing approach, 178 unique OR sequences, corresponding to 119 unique OR genes are characterised from 14 mole-rat species. Bathyergidae OR genes are classified using sequence similarity and phylogenetic comparison with more than 50 mammalian OR subgenomes. 2015-01-05T06:46:23Z 2015-01-05T06:46:23Z 2012 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11345 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Science Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
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The tangled history of olfaction in African mole-rats, Bathyergidae: insights from Olfactory Receptor genes
description Includes abstract. === Includes bibliographical references. === This thesis reports the first assessment of OR variation in Bathyergidae, and therefore, the first for a family of subterranean mammals. Using a PCR-sequencing approach, 178 unique OR sequences, corresponding to 119 unique OR genes are characterised from 14 mole-rat species. Bathyergidae OR genes are classified using sequence similarity and phylogenetic comparison with more than 50 mammalian OR subgenomes.
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title The tangled history of olfaction in African mole-rats, Bathyergidae: insights from Olfactory Receptor genes
title_short The tangled history of olfaction in African mole-rats, Bathyergidae: insights from Olfactory Receptor genes
title_full The tangled history of olfaction in African mole-rats, Bathyergidae: insights from Olfactory Receptor genes
title_fullStr The tangled history of olfaction in African mole-rats, Bathyergidae: insights from Olfactory Receptor genes
title_full_unstemmed The tangled history of olfaction in African mole-rats, Bathyergidae: insights from Olfactory Receptor genes
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