Massive losses of taste receptor genes in toothed and baleen whales.

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Published in Genome Biol Evol on May 06, 2014

Authors

Ping Feng1, Jinsong Zheng2, Stephen J Rossiter3, Ding Wang2, Huabin Zhao4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Zoology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, China.
2: Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
3: School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom.
4: Department of Zoology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, China huabinzhao@whu.edu.cn.

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