Yoshiro Ishimaru

Understanding evolutionary roots of preferences for sweet tastes

A research team led by Associate Professor Hidenori Nishihara from Kindai University and Professor Yoshiro Ishimaru from Meiji University, Japan, have identified five new, previously undiscovered groups within the TAS1R family. This discovery is a result of a genome-widesurvey of jawed vertebrates including all major fish groups. Researchers from all...