E Pluribus unum, ex uno plura1: Quantitative and single-gene perspectives on the study of behavior

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue , 2004, Pages 79-105

  Greenspan, Ralph J ^a  

^a NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Genome; Mutant; Natural variation; Pleiotropy

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; SEROTONIN;

BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROSOPHILA; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP PATTERN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; DROSOPHILA; GENES; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUTATION;

EID: 2442709843     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144323     Document Type: Review

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