Min Hou, Muhammad Shoaib Akhtar, Masahiro Hayashi, Ryuichi Ashino, Akiko Matsumoto-Oda, Takashi Hayakawa, Takafumi Ishida, Amanda D Melin, Hiroo Imai, Shoji Kawamura
Bitter taste perception is important in preventing animals from ingesting potentially toxic compounds. Whole-genome assembly (WGA) data have revealed that bitter taste receptor genes (TAS2Rs) comprise a multigene family with dozens of intact and disrupted genes in primates. However, publicly available WGA data are often incomplete, especially for multigene families. In this study, we employed a targeted capture (TC) approach specifically probing TAS2Rs for ten species of cercopithecid primates with diverse diets, including eight omnivorous cercopithecine species and two folivorous colobine species...
April 11, 2024: Primates; Journal of Primatology