The bamboo-eating giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) has a sweet tooth: behavioral and molecular responses to compounds that taste sweet to humans.

by Peihua Jiang, Jesusa Josue-Almqvist, Xuelin Jin, Xia Li, Joseph G Brand, Robert F Margolskee, Danielle R Reed, Gary K Beauchamp
Published 2014-01-01

Sour ageusia in two individuals implicates ion channels of the ASIC and PKD families in human sour taste perception at the anterior tongue.

by Taufiqul Huque, Beverly J Cowart, Luba Dankulich-Nagrudny, Edmund A Pribitkin, Douglas L Bayley, Andrew I Spielman, Roy S Feldman, Scott A Mackler, Joseph G Brand
Published 2009-10-01

Pseudogenization of a sweet-receptor gene accounts for cats' indifference toward sugar.

by Xia Li, Weihua Li, Hong Wang, Jie Cao, Kenji Maehashi, Liquan Huang, Alexander A Bachmanov, Danielle R Reed, Véronique Legrand-Defretin, Gary K Beauchamp, Joseph G Brand
Published 2005-07-01