| Mutation Description |
"Based on sequence alignments against cow (Bos taurus) homologues, we identified multiple ORF-disrupting indels and premature stop codons in Tas1r1, Tas1r2, Pkd2l1 and in ten Tas2rs scattered among cetacean branches." |
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| Timing of Loss |
"For Tas1r1, we identified a premature stop codon shared by all cetaceans, a 5 bp deletion shared
by all toothed whales and a 17 bp deletion in two baleen whales (Additional file 3: Figure S2)." |
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| Phenotypic |
"Considering that both Tas1r1 and Tas1r2 had been identified as pseudogenes, we speculated that the umami and sweet tastes had been lost in the cetaceans." |
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| Other |
"SEE "Additional file 3: Figures S1-S11. Indels and premature stop codons in Pkdl21, Tas1r1, Tas1r2, Tas2r1-3, Tas2r5, Tas2r16, Tas2r38-39, and Tas2r60." |
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