Genetics of smell and population history
I want to point to a recent paper by Jeremy McRae and colleagues McRae:2013, which identifies previously-unknown genetic associations with smell sensitivity ...
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Butterfly genetic theft
The Heliconius butterfly genome paper Dasmahapatra:2012 is supercool for many reasons. Most important from my point of view is the attention to introgression...
Neandertal anti-defamation files, 12
British wine guru, Oz Clarke, of Top Gear-head James May as he teaches him how to judge wine and squash grapes:
Primate smell decay
Matthew Cobb wrote recently about olfactory receptor evolution in primates: “You smell like a chimp.. and like a marmoset”.
If an olfactory receptor is expressed in your kidneys, what do they smell?
A reminder of the complexity of gene networks and their regulation: