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Quantitative description of genomic evolution of olfactory receptors
ISSN
17935571
Date Issued
2015-09-01
Author(s)
Hassan, Sk S.
Choudhury, P. Pal
Daya Sagar, B. S.
Chakraborty S.
Guha, R.
Goswami, A.
DOI
10.1142/S1793557115500436
Abstract
We investigate how the evolutionary network is associated among Human, Chimpanzee and Mouse with regards to their genomic information. We provide a quantitative description of genomic evolution through indexes based on fractals and mathematical morphology. These indexes are carefully chosen and reveal quantitatively the similarity or differences among the structure of the concerned sequences. They also reveal how the sequences have evolved over the course of time. We have considered olfactory receptors (ORs) as our case study. These ORs do function in different species with the subtle differences in between the structures of DNA sequences. Such differences are quantified in this paper.