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Coordinated coexpression of two vomeronasal receptor V2R genes per neuron in the mouse.
Molecular and cellular neurosciences - 1 Feb 2011
Ishii Tomohiro, Mombaerts Peter
Abstract excerpt
The detection of chemosensory stimuli by the sensory neurons of the mouse vomeronasal organ (VNO) is mainly mediated by seven-transmembrane receptors that are encoded by two large gene repertoires, V1R and V2R. The mouse genome contains 122 intact V2R genes, which can be grouped in four families by sequence homology: families A, B, and D (115 genes), and family C (7 genes). Vomeronasal sensory neurons (VSNs) in...
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