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Positive Darwinian selection in the singularly large taste receptor gene family of an ‘ancient’ fish, Latimeria chalumnae

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Genomics, August 2014
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Title
Positive Darwinian selection in the singularly large taste receptor gene family of an ‘ancient’ fish, Latimeria chalumnae
Published in
BMC Genomics, August 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2164-15-650
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Authors

Adnan S Syed, Sigrun I Korsching

Abstract

Chemical senses are one of the foremost means by which organisms make sense of their environment, among them the olfactory and gustatory sense of vertebrates and arthropods. Both senses use large repertoires of receptors to achieve perception of complex chemosensory stimuli. High evolutionary dynamics of some olfactory and gustatory receptor gene families result in considerable variance of chemosensory perception between species. Interestingly, both ora/v1r genes and the closely related t2r genes constitute small and rather conserved families in teleost fish, but show rapid evolution and large species differences in tetrapods. To understand this transition, chemosensory gene repertoires of earlier diverging members of the tetrapod lineage, i.e. lobe-finned fish such as Latimeria would be of high interest.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 22 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 18%
Researcher 3 14%
Student > Postgraduate 2 9%
Professor 2 9%
Student > Master 2 9%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 7 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 36%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 23%
Neuroscience 1 5%
Unknown 8 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 October 2015.
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#8,186,806
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#3,662
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#75,148
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#87
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