Browsing School of Biological and Chemical Sciences by Subject "whales"

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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 ...

    • Phylogenomic Resolution of the Cetacean Tree of Life Using Target Sequence Capture. 

      McGowen, MR; Tsagkogeorga, G; Álvarez-Carretero, S; Dos Reis, M; Struebig, M; Deaville, R; Jepson, PD; Jarman, S; Polanowski, A; Morin, PA (2019-10-21)
      The evolution of cetaceans, from their early transition to an aquatic lifestyle to their subsequent diversification, has been the subject of numerous studies. However, while the higher-level relationships among cetacean ...