When morphology does not fit the genomes: the case of rodent olfaction.

Autor: Martinez Q; Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution (ISEM, UMR 5554 CNRS-IRD-UM-EPHE), Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon - CC 064 - 34095, Montpellier Cedex 5, France.; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart DE-70191, Stuttgart, Germany., Courcelle M; Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution (ISEM, UMR 5554 CNRS-IRD-UM-EPHE), Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon - CC 064 - 34095, Montpellier Cedex 5, France., Douzery E; Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution (ISEM, UMR 5554 CNRS-IRD-UM-EPHE), Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon - CC 064 - 34095, Montpellier Cedex 5, France., Fabre PH; Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution (ISEM, UMR 5554 CNRS-IRD-UM-EPHE), Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon - CC 064 - 34095, Montpellier Cedex 5, France.; Mammal Section, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5DB, UK.; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France.; Division of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy), American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, 79th St., New York, NY 10024-5192, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Biology letters [Biol Lett] 2023 Apr; Vol. 19 (4), pp. 20230080. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 12.
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0080
Abstrakt: Linking genes to phenotypes has been a major question in evolutionary biology for the last decades. In the genomic era, few studies attempted to link olfactory-related genes to different anatomical proxies. However, they found very inconsistent results. This study is the first to investigate a potential relation between olfactory turbinals and olfactory receptor (OR) genes. We demonstrated that despite the use of similar methodology in the acquisition of data, OR genes do not correlate with the relative and the absolute surface area of olfactory turbinals. These results challenged the interpretations of several studies based on different proxies related to olfaction and their potential relation to olfactory capabilities.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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