Eco-geographical diversification of bitter taste receptor genes (TAS2Rs) among subspecies of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Hayakawa, Takashi ^a,b   Sugawara, Tohru ^a,d   Go, Yasuhiro ^a   Udono, Toshifumi ^c   Hirai, Hirohisa ^a   Imai, Hiroo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER OF KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE RECEPTOR GENE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE; GENE CONVERSION VARIATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE VARIATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PAN TROGLODYTES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TASTE;

EID: 84865086519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043277     Document Type: Article

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