Dietary specialization drives multiple independent losses and gains in the bitter taste gene repertoire of Laurasiatherian Mammals

Molecular evidence for the loss of three basic tastes in penguins

(2015) Huabin Zhao et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Birds Generally Carry a Small Repertoire of Bitter Taste Receptor Genes

(2015) Kai Wang et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The position of tree shrews in the mammalian tree: Comparing multi-gene analyses with phylogenomic results leaves monophyly of Euarchonta doubtful

(2015) Xuming ZHOU et al.   Integrative Zoology

Functional Analyses of Bitter Taste Receptors in Domestic Cats (Felis catus)

(2015) Weiwei Lei et al.   PLoS One

Aquatic adaptation and the evolution of smell and taste in whales

(2015) Takushi Kishida et al.   Zoological Letters

Massive Losses of Taste Receptor Genes in Toothed and Baleen Whales

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

Tuning Properties of Avian and Frog Bitter Taste Receptors Dynamically Fit Gene Repertoire sizes

(2014) Maik Behrens et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Vampire bats exhibit evolutionary reduction of bitter taste receptor genes common to other bats

(2014) W. Hong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2013) Diyan Li et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Unipro UGENE: a unified bioinformatics toolkit

(2012) Konstantin Okonechnikov et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Loss or major reduction of umami taste sensation in pinnipeds

(2012) Jun J. Sato et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Major taste loss in carnivorous mammals

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

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

(2012) H. Zhao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Phylogenomic Analysis Resolves the Interordinal Relationships and Rapid Diversification of the Laurasiatherian Mammals

(2011) Xuming Zhou et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

Dynamic evolution of bitter taste receptor genes in vertebrates

(2009) Dong Dong et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY