FIG. 3.—
Phylogeny of the white-throated sparrow TAS2Rs. The predicted TAS2R protein sequences from the white-throated sparrow (Zal), chicken (Gga), and zebra finch (Tgu) were used to construct a phylogenetic tree. The branch lengths are scaled according to the calculated evolutionary distances (amino acid substitutions/site, VT substitution model). * and ** indicate nodes with 0.5–0.75 and >0.75 bootstrap support. Note that the fish TAS2R protein used to root the tree (see Materials and Methods) is not shown.