About the Authors
- Dorke Meyer
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Affiliation Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Anja Voigt
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Affiliations German Institute of Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany, Institute for Neural Signal Transduction, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg, Germany
- Patricia Widmayer
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Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
- Heike Borth
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Affiliation Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Sandra Huebner
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Affiliation German Institute of Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany
- Andreas Breit
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Affiliation Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Susan Marschall
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Munich, Germany
- Martin Hrabé de Angelis
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Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Munich, Germany
- Ulrich Boehm
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Affiliation Institute for Neural Signal Transduction, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg, Germany
- Wolfgang Meyerhof
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Affiliation German Institute of Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany
- Thomas Gudermann
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Affiliation Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- Ingrid Boekhoff
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* E-mail: ingrid.boekhoff@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Affiliation Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Competing Interests
TG, IB and DM are named inventors of a patent (DE 10 2005 028 453.1) concerning taste receptor related evaluation and manipulation of human fertility. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: IB DM PW TG WM. Performed the experiments: DM HB SM SH. Analyzed the data: DM IB AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AV UB WM MHA. Wrote the paper: IB DM.