Mismatches between feeding ecology and taste receptor evolution: an inconvenient truth

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Huabin Zhao et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012.

. 2012 Jun 5;109(23):E1464; author reply E1465.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1205205109. Epub 2012 May 4.

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