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Table 2 Differences in the frequencies of functional OR genes among different species

From: Analysis of cattle olfactory subgenome: the first detail study on the characteristics of the complete olfactory receptor repertoire of a ruminant

Species

No. of functional genes (%)

No. of pseudogenes

Pig

1,113 (86)

188

Cattle

881 (82)

190

Rat

1,201 (80)

292

Dog

872 (80)

222

Mouse

1,037 (75)

354

Zebrafish

102 (74)

35

Human

388 (48)

414

Frog

410 (46)

478

Pufferfish

44 (45)

54

Chicken

82 (15)

476

  1. Note: Except for cattle, data were from Niimura and Nei [22] and Nguyen et al. [6].
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