Rapid Expansion and Specialization of the Bitter Taste Receptor Family in Amphibians
In classic sensory literature, bitterness is viewed as an early-warning system for toxic or spoiled foods. In vertebrates, bitterness is detected with a family of intronless G protein-coupled receptors called TAS2Rs. TAS2Rs are well studied in the human and mouse mouth, but recent studies have explo...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156282 |