Latent taste diversity revealed by a vertebrate-wide catalogue of T1R receptors
H. Nishihara, Y. Toda, T. Kuramoto, K. Kamohara, A. Goto, K. Hoshino, S. Okada, S. Kuraku, M. Okabe, Y. Ishimaru
The paper identifies five new TAS1R receptors in vertebrates, revealing greater taste receptor diversity than previously thought and their functional roles in ligand recognition.
Nature Ecology & Evolution · Dec 13, 2023Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology