Diversification of bitter taste receptor gene family in western chimpanzees

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 921-931

  Sugawara, Tohru ^a   Go, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Udono, Toshifumi ^c   Morimura, Naruki ^a,c   Tomonaga, Masaki ^a   Hirai, Hirohisa ^a,b   Imai, Hiroo ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Graduate School of Science   (Japan)

^c Chimpanzee Sanctuary Uto   (Japan)

Author keywords

bitter taste receptor; chimpanzee; polymorphism

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CHIMPANZEE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PSEUDOGENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; T2R GENE; TASTE BUD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TASTE; TASTE BUDS;

MAMMALIA; PAN;

EID: 78751560975     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq279     Document Type: Article

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