Identification of non-taster Japanese macaques for a specific bitter taste

Primates

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 285-289

  Suzuki, Nami ^a   Sugawara, Tohru ^a,c   Matsui, Atsushi ^a,b   Go, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Hirai, Hirohisa ^a,b   Imai, Hiroo ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bitter taste; Brassica plants; Japanese macaque

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

DETECTION METHOD; DICOTYLEDON; GENOTYPE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PERCEPTION; POLYMORPHISM; PRIMATE; TASTE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRASSICA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MACACA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TASTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRASSICA; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MACACA; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TASTE;

JAPAN;

BRASSICA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PAN; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84755161197     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-010-0209-3     Document Type: Article

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