Evolution: A study in bad taste?

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2005, Pages

  Wooding, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LIGAND;

ALLELE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION GENETICS; SHORT SURVEY; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

ALLELES; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LIGANDS; PLANTS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SELECTION (GENETICS); TASTE; TASTE BUDS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

EID: 26244437642     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.09.021     Document Type: Short Survey

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