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. 2009 Aug 4;1:258–264. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evp026

Table 1.

Number of OR Genes and Pseudogenes in Primates

	Apes			OWM	NWM	Prosimian
Species	Human^a	Chimpanzee ^b	Orangutan	Macaque ^b	Marmoset	Mouse lemur
Intact genes	387	380	312	309	383	371
Partial genes	0	19	9	17	12	226
Pseudogenes	415	414	366	280	258	177
Fraction of pseudogenes (%)	51.7	50.9∼53.3	53.3∼54.6	46.2∼49	39.5∼41.3	Unknown

^a

OR gene number is from Niimura and Nei (2007).

^b

OR gene number is from Go and Niimura (2008).