... clone and gave the remaining part of the coding region. The coding part of the Y6gene is contained within one exon and encodes a protein of 374 amino acids displaying the characteristics of other ... severalother primates [32,34,36], pig [37] and guinea-pig [38], and it has been lost in rat [39]. On the other hand, the gene has an intact open reading frame in a distantrelative of the pig, the ... compared to the GenBank databaseusing the On-Line blastx program and found to be sim-ilar to the mammalian Y6 receptors. The cloned insert waslabeled using the Random Primer Labeling Kit (Amer-sham...