About the Authors
- Xia Li
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Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Weihua Li
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Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Hong Wang
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Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Jie Cao
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Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Kenji Maehashi
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¤ Current address: Department of Fermentation Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Liquan Huang
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Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Alexander A Bachmanov
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Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Danielle R Reed
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Affiliation Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Véronique Legrand-Defretin
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Affiliation The WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Gary K Beauchamp
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Affiliations Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America , Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences and Department of Anatomy, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Joseph G Brand
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: brand@monell.org
Affiliations Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America , Department of Biochemistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America , Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
HW, JC, KM, and LH declare that they have no competing interests of a financial, professional, or personal nature. VLD is an employee of the Masterfoods division of Mars. GKB is on an advisory board to the WALTHAM Centre. Patents describing the uses of the feline receptors have been filed, and name as inventors: XL, WL, JGB, DRR, and AAB.
Author Contributions
XL, LH, DRR, VLD, GKB, and JGB conceived and designed the experiments. XL, WL, HW, JC, KM, and JGB performed the experiments. XL, WL, JC, AAB, and DRR analyzed the data. XL, HW, LH, AAB, and JGB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. XL, AAB, DRR, GKB, and JGB wrote the paper.