Euk.genes that function and live together

[Michael A. Charleston]

In article
<Pine.SUN.3.91.950621083011.27504A-100000 at bonjour.cc.columbia.edu>,
Christopher G Winter <cgw1 at columbia.edu> wrote:

> What evidence is there that genes whose products
> function together, and are unrelated in sequence, are co-localized in the 
> genome -- a la operonic genes in prok's? 
> 
> Clearly, there are many examples of proteins that are known to be 
> components of the same metabolic pathway, but whose genes are no where 
> near each other. However, I wonder if there may be certain exceptions to 
> this rule. 


I just heard a talk by Robert Moyzis, director of the Human Genome project
at Los Alamos, in which he mentioned that there is a large cluster of
genes related to olfaction.

Matt Brauer <mjbrauer at mail.utexas.edu>
http://www.utexas.edu/csn/zoology/phylo
Dept. of Zoology
University of Texas, Austin