Early experience and parent-of-origin-specific effects influence female reproductive success in mice

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 253-256

  Hager, Reinmar ^a,b   Johnstone, Rufus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early experience; Genomic imprinting; Mice; Parent of origin specific effects; Reproductive success

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE; MATE CHOICE; MATERNAL EFFECT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SIBLING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; INHERITANCE; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIBLING RELATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33745324745     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0457     Document Type: Article

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