What's that smell?

In this note on the Nobel in medicine, PZ Myers mentions that about 3% of the human genome is devoted to smell receptors. And that's not counting the broken remnants of genes formerly encoding smell receptors; our ancestors relied on it more.

I wonder how much of the cat genome is smell receptors.

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