Reply to Zhao and Zhang: Loss of taste receptor function in mammals is directly related to feeding specializations

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

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE;

BAT; CARNIVORE; FEEDING; FRUIT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; LETTER; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SWEETNESS; TASTE BUD; TASTE DISORDER;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84861871908     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205581109     Document Type: Letter

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