Behavioral genetics: Genes and aggressiveness

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 238-240

  Tecott, Laurence H ^a   Barondes, Samuel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); SEROTONIN RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; MICE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN;

EID: 0030091293     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00466-9     Document Type: Article

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