The Remarkable Diversity of Vertebrate Bitter Taste Receptors: Recent Advances in Genomic and Functional Studies
Akihiro Itoigawa, Tomoya Nakagita, Yasuka Toda, Diego Guidolin · 2024
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Akihiro Itoigawa, Tomoya Nakagita, Yasuka Toda, and Diego Guidolin review the wide variety of bitter taste receptors across vertebrates. Tasting bitter helps animals avoid plant toxins and other harmful compounds. The receptors form a family on taste buds that has changed a great deal over evolution.
New gene and lab studies have mapped these receptors in many species. The family shows frequent gene births and losses, shifts in what each receptor detects, and differences within species. The authors link this diversity to diet and habitat, and sum up how ecology and evolution have shaped the sense of bitter taste.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Akihiro Itoigawa, Tomoya Nakagita, Yasuka Toda, Diego Guidolin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |