Mismatches between feeding ecology and taste receptor evolution: An inconvenient truth

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

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Zhao, Huabin ^a   Zhang, Jianzhi ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AILUROPODA; BAT; CARNIVORE; COW; EVOLUTION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; GENE; GENOME; HERBIVORE; HORSE; LETTER; MARINE MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; PISCIVORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SWINE; TAS1R1 GENE; TAS1R2 GENE; TASTE; TASTE BUD; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARNIVORA; CARNIVORY; TASTE;

EID: 84861895081     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205205109     Document Type: Letter

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