| Let us assume AVMAYDRYVAIC or MAYDRYVAICCP, most important signature domain of
olfactory receptor (OR) gene family assembled in evolution following simplest possible laws of statistics which says the addition of V after A in AVMAYDRYVAIC or addition of A after M are independent events. There are 20 amino acids present in nature so the probability of joint occurrence of such events is 1/400. Therefore for making a contiguous string of
AVMAYDRYVAIC or MAYDRYVAICCP, the probability would be 1 out of 2012. Over millions of years of evolution this has certainly happened and that is why we see such a signature sequence in OR1D2, OR1D subfamily member 2 as per "HORDE... |
