Ancient protostome origin of chemosensory ionotropic glutamate receptors and the evolution of insect taste and olfaction

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Croset, Vincent ^a   Rytz, Raphael ^a   Cummins, Scott F ^b,d   Budd, Aidan ^c   Brawand, David ^a   Kaessmann, Henrik ^a   Gibson, Toby J ^c   Benton, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMICS; GUSTATORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLLUSC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PLAGUE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; RECEPTOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASTE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ODOR; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; HEXAPODA; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; PROTOSTOMIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL; TASTE;

EID: 77956864486     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001064     Document Type: Article

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