Why Does the Giant Panda Eat Bamboo? A Comparative Analysis of Appetite-Reward-Related Genes among Mammals

BACKGROUND: The giant panda has an interesting bamboo diet unlike the other species in the order of Carnivora. The umami taste receptor gene T1R1 has been identified as a pseudogene during its genome sequencing project and confirmed using a different giant panda sample. The estimated mutation time f...

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Autores principales: Jin, Ke, Xue, Chenyi, Wu, Xiaoli, Qian, Jinyi, Zhu, Yong, Yang, Zhen, Yonezawa, Takahiro, Crabbe, M. James C., Cao, Ying, Hasegawa, Masami, Zhong, Yang, Zheng, Yufang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21818345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022602

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21818345
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022602

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