Chemosensory receptors are essential for the survival of organisms that range from bacteria
to mammals. Recent studies have shown that the numbers of functional chemosensory …

Recent advances in understanding the molecular basis of taste physiology in fish could
open new opportunities to optimize feeding performance in aquaculture. This is particularly …

Sensory systems define an animal's capacity for perception and can evolve to promote
survival in new environmental niches. We have uncovered a noncanonical mechanism for …

Evidence obtained in recent years in a few species, especially rainbow trout, supports the
presence in fish of nutrient sensing mechanisms. Glucosensing capacity is present in central …

The miiuy croaker, Miichthys miiuy, is a representative Sciaenidae known for its
exceptionally large otoliths. This species mainly inhabits turbid aquatic environments with …

Selective ubiquitination of proteins is directed by diverse families of ubiquitin-protein ligases
(or E3s) in plants. One important type uses Cullin-3 as a scaffold to assemble multisubunit …

Genome scan approaches to detect footprints of directional selection in the genomes of wild
animal and plant populations have become popular tools to study local adaptation and …

Chemosensation (smell and taste) is important to the survival and reproduction of
vertebrates and is mediated by specific bindings of odorants, pheromones, and tastants by …

By analysis with microarray data, we found that a gene encoding a novel protein containing
five WD40 repeats, was regulated by salt stress in rice and named as SRWD1 (Salt …

Sensory receptors enable animals to perceive their external world, and functional properties
of receptors evolve to detect the specific cues relevant for an organism's survival. Changes …