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Bitter taste receptors: Genes, evolution and health

Bitter taste perception plays vital roles in animal behavior and fitness. By signaling the presence of toxins in foods, particularly noxious defense compounds found in plants, it enables animals to avoid exposure. In vertebrates, bitter perception is initiated by TAS2Rs, a family of G protein-couple...

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Autores principales: Wooding, Stephen P, Ramirez, Vicente A, Behrens, Maik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8830313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoab031