Massive Losses of Taste Receptor Genes in Toothed and Baleen Whales

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Diet Shapes the Evolution of the Vertebrate Bitter Taste Receptor Gene Repertoire

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Baiji genomes reveal low genetic variability and new insights into secondary aquatic adaptations

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Obligate mutualism within a host drives the extreme specialization of a fig wasp genome

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jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

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Loss or major reduction of umami taste sensation in pinnipeds

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Major taste loss in carnivorous mammals

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Mismatches between feeding ecology and taste receptor evolution: An inconvenient truth

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Dolphin genome provides evidence for adaptive evolution of nervous system genes and a molecular rate slowdown

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Genomic and Genetic Evidence for the Loss of Umami Taste in Bats

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MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Gustatory and extragustatory functions of mammalian taste receptors

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Evolution of the Sweet Taste Receptor Gene Tas1r2 in Bats

(2010) H. Zhao et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Pseudogenization of the Umami Taste Receptor Gene Tas1r1 in the Giant Panda Coincided with its Dietary Switch to Bamboo

(2010) H. Zhao et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

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Common Sense about Taste: From Mammals to Insects

(2009) David A. Yarmolinsky et al.   CELL

Divergence date estimation and a comprehensive molecular tree of extant cetaceans

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

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