Additive genetic variation of transcriptional regulation: Metallothionein expression in the soil insect Orchesella cincta

Heredity

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-92

  Roelofs, D ^a   Overhein, L ^a   De Boer, M E ^a   Janssens, T K S ^a   Van Straalen, N M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Croquemort; Heritability; Metallothionein; Orchesella cincta; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; METALLOTHIONEIN;

GENETIC VARIATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CADMIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; METALLOTHIONEIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SOIL POLLUTANTS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

INSECTA; ORCHESELLA CINCTA;

EID: 33645001713     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800756     Document Type: Article

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