I was looking if a certain species had a particular gene,
1)so I went to NCBI and searched typed the "lipase" into the search bar.
2) filtered by taxon.
3) my species of interest was listed in the taxon, so i clicked it
4) results show a entrez id but the description is "uncharacterized LOC..."
Does this mean that the gene sequence is similar to other sequences of lipase, but we just are not 100% sure that "characterized LOC" is a lipase in my target species?
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gene designation (From LINK):