Frequent expansions of the bitter taste receptor gene repertoire during evolution of mammals in the euarchontoglires clade

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2018-2031

  Hayakawa, Takashi ^a,b   Suzuki Hashido, Nami ^a,b   Matsui, Atsushi ^c,d,e   Go, Yasuhiro ^a,f  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

birth and death evolution; bitter taste receptor; Euarchontoglires; feeding characteristics; sensory trade off; TAS2R

Indexed keywords

APE; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; BITTER TASTE RECEPTOR GENE; CLADISTICS; DERMOPTERA; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; EUARCHONTOGLIRES; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; LAGOMORPH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIMATE; RODENT; SCANDENTIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASTE;

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TASTE;

EID: 84905053904     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu144     Document Type: Article

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