Browsing School of Biological and Chemical Sciences by Subject "Base Sequence"

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    • Massive losses of taste receptor genes in toothed and baleen whales. 

      Feng, P; Zheng, J; Rossiter, SJ; Wang, D; Zhao, H (2014-05-06)
      Taste receptor genes are functionally important in animals, with a surprising exception in the bottlenose dolphin, which shows extensive losses of sweet, umami, and bitter taste receptor genes. To examine the generality ...

    • Molecular evolutionary characterization of a V1R subfamily unique to strepsirrhine primates. 

      Yoder, AD; Chan, LM; dos Reis, M; Larsen, PA; Campbell, CR; Rasoloarison, R; Barrett, M; Roos, C; Kappeler, P; Bielawski, J (2014-01)
      Vomeronasal receptor genes have frequently been invoked as integral to the establishment and maintenance of species boundaries among mammals due to the elaborate one-to-one correspondence between semiochemical signals and ...