Major taste loss in carnivorous mammals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4956-4961

  Jiang, Peihua ^a   Josue, Jesusa ^a   Li, Xia ^a,c   Glaser, Dieter ^b   Li, Weihua ^a,d   Brand, Joseph G ^a   Margolskee, Robert F ^a   Reed, Danielle R ^a   Beauchamp, Gary K ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c AmeriPath Northeast   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Sweetener

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTOR TYPE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGEUSIA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEAR; BITTER TASTE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CARNIVORA; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUPLERIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; MASTICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; SWALLOWING; SWEETNESS; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARNIVORA; CARNIVORY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE;

CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; TREMARCTOS ORNATUS; TURSIOPS;

EID: 84859450268     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118360109     Document Type: Article

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