About the Authors

Dorke Meyer

Affiliation Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Anja Voigt

Affiliations German Institute of Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany, Institute for Neural Signal Transduction, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg, Germany

Patricia Widmayer

Affiliation Institute of Physiology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Heike Borth

Affiliation Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Sandra Huebner

Affiliation German Institute of Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Andreas Breit

Affiliation Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Susan Marschall

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Martin Hrabé de Angelis

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Ulrich Boehm

Affiliation Institute for Neural Signal Transduction, Center for Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg, Germany

Wolfgang Meyerhof

Affiliation German Institute of Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Germany

Thomas Gudermann

Affiliation Walther-Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Ingrid Boekhoff

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.