Simple Summary A sense of taste is vital to an animal's fitness. It enables animals to select
and ingest beneficial foods and avoid harmful substances in their daily lives. There have …

Bitter taste perception plays a critical role in deterring animals from consuming harmful and
toxic substances. To characterize the evolution of primate Tas2r, test the generality of Tas2r …

Adaptive evolution plays a role in the functional divergence and specialization of taste
receptors and the sense of taste is thought to be closely related to feeding ecology. To …

Among the five basic tastes (umami, sweet, bitter, salty and sour), the perception of
bitterness is believed to protect animals from digesting toxic and harmful substances, thus it …

Sensory systems play an important role in animal survival. Changes to these systems may
be critical in evolution of species in new environments. Previous studies exploring the …

Bitter taste perception plays an important role in preventing animals from digesting
poisonous and harmful substances. In primates, especially the Cercopithecidae species …

Taste perception is an important component of an animal's fitness. The identification of
vertebrate taste receptor genes in the last decade has enabled molecular genetic studies of …

Bitter taste perception is a key detection mechanism acting to protect animals against the
ingestion of bioactive molecules. Recent progress in the analysis of human bitter taste …

Bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs) serve an important function during evolution. They are
designed to detect toxic plant metabolites before ingestion. With respect to bitter taste …

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have region-specific difference in dietary repertoires from
East to West across tropical Africa. Such differences may result from different genetic …