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Bad Taste Protects Fruit Flies from Eating a Toxic Amino Acid in Plants

An orphan G-protein-coupled gustatory receptor mediates detection of the plant poison L-canavanine in fruit flies.

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Autor principal: Meadows, Robin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20076747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000128
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spelling pubmed-26955582009-06-30 Bad Taste Protects Fruit Flies from Eating a Toxic Amino Acid in Plants Meadows, Robin PLoS Biol Synopsis An orphan G-protein-coupled gustatory receptor mediates detection of the plant poison L-canavanine in fruit flies. Public Library of Science 2009-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2695558/ /pubmed/20076747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000128 Text en Robin Meadows. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_fullStr Bad Taste Protects Fruit Flies from Eating a Toxic Amino Acid in Plants
title_full_unstemmed Bad Taste Protects Fruit Flies from Eating a Toxic Amino Acid in Plants
title_short Bad Taste Protects Fruit Flies from Eating a Toxic Amino Acid in Plants
title_sort bad taste protects fruit flies from eating a toxic amino acid in plants
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2695558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20076747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000128
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