The similarity between human and fly

Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)

According to researchers at the Monell Center, fruit flies are more like humans in their responses to many sweet tastes than are almost any other species.

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Characterization of Ligands for Fish Taste Receptors

badboy submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.jneurosci.org)

"Recent progress in the molecular biology of taste reception has revealed that in mammals, the heteromeric receptors T1R1/3 and T1R2/3 respond to amino acids and sweeteners, respectively, whereas T2Rs are receptors for bitter tastants. Similar taste receptors have also been characterized in fish, but their ligands have not been identified yet. In the present study, we conducted a series of experiments to identify the fish taste receptor ligands

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