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Robertson, personal communication, FBrf0141780; K. Scott and R. Axel, personal communication, FBrf0137428), and 61 odorant receptor genes (H.
Mammalian ORs are known to undergo rapid desensitization after odorant stimulation [ 56] and GRK3 has been implicated in this process [ 57, 58].
Many specific anosmias (inabilities to smell a particular odorant) have been identified in humans [ 26, 27].
In insects, the diversity of such receptors is lower, but still impressive: fruit flies appear to have 65 different odorant receptor genes [30].
By analogy with the classical examples of pharmacology-based nomenclatures of some well-studied G-protein-coupled receptor families, a nomenclature of functional olfactory receptors could be based on their odorant specificity.