Rapid expansion and specialization of the TAS2R bitter taste receptor family in amphibians

• Kathleen W. Higgins ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Plant-Human Interface, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3551-9502

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• Akihiro Itoigawa ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Agricultural Chemistry, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6576-6056

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• Yasuka Toda,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5912-6730

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• Daniel Winston Bellott,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3265-7555

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• Rachel Anderson,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3450-3151

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• Roberto Márquez ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rmarquezp@vt.edu (RM); jingke.weng@northeastern.edu (J-KW)

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0644-3078

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• Jing-Ke Weng

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rmarquezp@vt.edu (RM); jingke.weng@northeastern.edu (J-KW)

  Affiliations Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Institute for Plant-Human Interface, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3059-0075

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