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Expansion of sweet taste receptor genes in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) coincided with vegetarian adaptation

BACKGROUND: Taste is fundamental to diet selection in vertebrates. Genetic basis of sweet taste receptor in the shaping of food habits has been extensively studied in mammals and birds, but scarcely studied in fishes. Grass carp is an excellent model for studying vegetarian adaptation, as it exhibit...

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Autores principales: Yuan, Xiao-Chen, Liang, Xu-Fang, Cai, Wen-Jing, He, Shan, Guo, Wen-Jie, Mai, Kang-Sen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32046636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-020-1590-1