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Evolution and diversity of umami taste among carnivoran mammals in ecological, behavioural and phylogenetic contexts

2012/05/B/NZ8/02687

Keywords:

adaptation adaptive radiation Carnivora diet DNA ecology evolution evolutionary biology feeding behaviour feeding ecology feeding mode genetics marine environment molecular ecology natural selection Pinnipedia pseudogene pseudogenization taste receptor umami

Descriptors:

  • NZ8_1: Evolutionary biology
  • NZ8_2: Ecology
  • NZ8_12: Zoology

Panel:

NZ8 - Evolutionary and environmental biology: evolution, ecology, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography

Host institution :

Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Mieczysław Wolsan 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: OPUS 3 - announced on 2012-03-15

Amount awarded: 366 095 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2013-01-23

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2017-01-22

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  1. Role of feeding specialization in taste receptor loss: insights from sweet and umami receptor evolution in dogs, cats, and kin (Carnivora)
    Authors:
    Mieczysław Wolsan, Jun J. Sato
    Academic press:
    Chemical Senses (rok: 2022, tom: Złożone, strony: 15707), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Submitted
    DOI:
    brak - link to the publication
  2. Dental integration and modularity in pinnipeds
    Authors:
    Mieczyslaw Wolsan, Satoshi Suzuki, Masakazu Asahara, Masaharu Motokawa
    Academic press:
    Scientific Reports (rok: 2019, tom: 9 (4184), strony: 45304), Wydawca: Nature Publishing Group
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41598-019-40956-1 - link to the publication
  3. Tooth size variation in pinniped dentitions
    Authors:
    Mieczysław Wolsan, Satoshi Suzuki, Masakazu Asahara, Masaharu Motokawa
    Academic press:
    PLOS One (rok: 2015, tom: 10 (e0137100), strony: 45319), Wydawca: Public Library Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1371/journal.pone.0137100 - link to the publication
  4. Parallel loss of sweet and umami taste receptor function from phocids and otarioids suggests multiple colonizations of the marine realm by pinnipeds
    Authors:
    Mieczysław Wolsan, Jun J. Sato
    Academic press:
    Journal of Biogeography (rok: 2020, tom: 47, strony: 235–249), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1111/jbi.13749 - link to the publication

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