Article
Evolution of a bitter taste receptor gene cluster in a New World sparrow.
Genome biology and evolution - 12 Jul 2010
Davis Jamie K, Lowman Josh J, Thomas Pamela J, ten Hallers Boudewijn F H, Koriabine Maxim, Huynh Lynn Y, Maney Donna L, de Jong Pieter J, Martin Christa L, Thomas James W
Abstract excerpt
Bitter taste perception likely evolved as a protective mechanism against the ingestion of harmful compounds in food. The evolution of the taste receptor type 2 (TAS2R) gene family, which encodes the chemoreceptors that are directly responsible for the detection of bitter compounds, has therefore...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Chromosome Breakage
- Chromosome Inversion
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial
- Evolution, Molecular
- Finches
- Gene Duplication
- Gene Rearrangement
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Molecular Sequence Data