Loss or major reduction of umami taste sensation in pinnipeds

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 655-659

  Sato, Jun J ^a   Wolsan, Mieczyslaw ^b  

^a FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diet; Feeding behavior; Feeding ecology; Marine adaptation; Marine environment

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 1;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID; CARNIVORE; CEPHALOPOD; CLADISTICS; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MUTATION; PINNIPED; PROTEIN; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CLASSIFICATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOGENE; SEAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TASTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARNIVORA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PINNIPEDIA; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TASTE;

CARNIVORA; CEPHALOPODA; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866234687     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0939-8     Document Type: Article

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