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. 2019 Sep 14;20:474. doi: 10.1186/s12859-019-3012-1

Table 1.

Number of genes for the selected gene families in each of the studied genomes

Species OR genes (whole) OR genes (intact) VR genes (whole) VR genes (intact) TAAR genes FPR genes TCR genes
Mouse 1364 1109 548 330 16 7 269
Rat 1363 1352 173 171 17 6
Human 779 404 63 3 9 3

Gene families are odorant receptor (OR) genes, vomeronasal receptor (VR) genes, trace amine-associated receptor (TAAR) genes, formyl peptide receptor (FPR) genes and T-cell receptor (TCR) genes (just for the mouse)