Aquatic adaptation and the evolution of smell and taste in whales

Massive Losses of Taste Receptor Genes in Toothed and Baleen Whales

(2014) Ping Feng et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Efficient de novo assembly of highly heterozygous genomes from whole-genome shotgun short reads

(2014) Rei Kajitani et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Frequent Expansions of the Bitter Taste Receptor Gene Repertoire during Evolution of Mammals in the Euarchontoglires Clade

(2014) Takashi Hayakawa et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

On the olfactory apparatus in the Miocene odontocete Squalodon sp. (Squalodontidae)

(2013) Stephen J. Godfrey   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Non-redundant coding of aversive odours in the main olfactory pathway

(2013) Adam Dewan et al.   NATURE

Minke whale genome and aquatic adaptation in cetaceans

(2013) Hyung-Soon Yim et al.   NATURE GENETICS

On the Olfactory Anatomy in an Archaic Whale (Protocetidae, Cetacea) and the Minke WhaleBalaenoptera acutorostrata(Balaenopteridae, Cetacea)

(2012) Stephen J. Godfrey et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

A phylogenetic blueprint for a modern whale

(2012) John Gatesy et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Major taste loss in carnivorous mammals

(2012) P. Jiang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An Olfactory Subsystem that Mediates High-Sensitivity Detection of Volatile Amines

(2012) Rodrigo Pacifico et al.   Cell Reports

Evolutionary changes of the importance of olfaction in cetaceans based on the olfactory marker protein gene

(2011) Takushi Kishida et al.   GENE

Cranial anatomy of middle Eocene Remingtonocetus (Cetacea, Mammalia) from Kutch, India

(2011) S. Bajpai et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A high-resolution map of human evolutionary constraint using 29 mammals

(2011) Kerstin Lindblad-Toh et al.   NATURE

Cetacean Brain Evolution: Dwarf Sperm Whale (Kogia sima) and Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) – An Investigation with High-Resolution 3D MRI

(2010) H.H.A. Oelschläger et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Olfaction and brain size in the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus)

(2010) J. G. M. Thewissen et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Conserved repertoire of orthologous vomeronasal type 1 receptor genes in ruminant species

(2009) Hiromi Ohara et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ecological adaptation determines functional mammalian olfactory subgenomes

(2009) S. Hayden et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Relationships of Cetacea (Artiodactyla) Among Mammals: Increased Taxon Sampling Alters Interpretations of Key Fossils and Character Evolution

(2009) Michelle Spaulding et al.   PLoS One

A whole-genome assembly of the domestic cow, Bos taurus

(2009) Aleksey V Zimin et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

GenomeMatcher: A graphical user interface for DNA sequence comparison

(2008) Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The evolution of animal chemosensory receptor gene repertoires: roles of chance and necessity

(2008) Masatoshi Nei et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Vestigial Olfactory Receptor Subgenome of Odontocete Whales: Phylogenetic Congruence between Gene-Tree Reconciliation and Supermatrix Methods

(2008) Michael R. McGowen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY