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Early origin of sweet perception in the songbird radiation
Early origin of sweet perception in the songbird radiation
- Source :
- Science. 373:226-231
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021.
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Abstract
- From savory to sweet Seeing a bird eat nectar from a flower is a common sight in our world. The ability to detect sugars, however, is not ancestral in the bird lineage, where most species were carnivorous. Toda et al. looked at receptors within the largest group of birds, the passerines or songbirds, and found that the emergence of sweet detection involved a single shift in a receptor for umami (see the Perspective by Barker). This ancient change facilitated sugar detection not just in nectar feeding birds, but also across the songbird group, and in a way that was different from, though convergent with, that in hummingbirds. Science , abf6505, this issue p. 226 ; see also abj6746, p. 154
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Sucrose
Plant Nectar
media_common.quotation_subject
Sensory biology
Carbohydrates
Sensory system
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
Avian Proteins
Birds
Songbirds
03 medical and health sciences
Perception
Animals
Amino Acids
Clade
media_common
Multidisciplinary
biology
Taste Perception
Feeding Behavior
biology.organism_classification
Biological Evolution
Evolutionary radiation
Diet
Songbird
030104 developmental biology
Evolutionary biology
Protein Multimerization
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10959203 and 00368075
- Volume :
- 373
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....519ea78c1bb3cf87ffcab31e7382ef3c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf6505