Adaptive diversification of bitter taste receptor genes in mammalian evolution

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 805-814

  Shi, Peng ^a,b   Zhang, Jianzhi ^c   Yang, Hui ^a,b   Zhang, Ya ping ^a,d  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bitter taste receptor; Evolution; Gene duplication; Positive selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BITTER TASTE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038708520     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg083     Document Type: Article

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