This makes them not always the most appealing people to be around, something to which those wives and girlfriends, who often have to clean up the spit buckets after massive tasting sessions, can testify.
Nonetheless, the massive losses of taste receptor genes in whales are striking, although losses of taste receptors have been frequently identified from insects to mammals (Nei et al. 2008; Xiao et al. 2013).
When Jane Bown laid down her Rolleiflex and swapped it for a 35mm camera in 1963 she was capitulating to a massive shift in taste and cultural focus.
There was a backlash of critical opinion, but the suggestion that this tale was a massive error of taste never gained favour.
But Bishop's strong revisions of modernism signaled a massive shift in taste away from the perceived excesses of the avant-garde.
Researchers uncovered a massive loss of taste receptors in these animals by screening the genomes of 15 species.
"We're lucky enough to live in a city with a massive diversity of taste.
We found all amplified T1Rs and T2Rs to be pseudogenes in all 12 whales, with a shared premature stop codon in 10 of the 13 genes, which demonstrated massive losses of taste receptor genes in the common ancestor of whales.
With the exception of the intact T2R16 in the three baleen whales, we found all members of sweet/umami (3 T1Rs) and bitter (10 T2receptorptor gene families (if amplified) to be pseudogenes in all 12 examined whales, with a shared premature stop codon in 10 of 13 genes, demonstrating massive losses of taste receptor genes in the common ancestor of toothed and baleen whales.
Deeply, on the one hand, these results suggest that statistical discrimination plays a relevant role; on the other hand, as discrimination is still relevant even if the level of information is huge, the results reveal a massive amount of taste-based discrimination.
