Quantitative Genomics of Aggressive Behavior in Drosophila melanogaster

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1386-1395

  Edwards, Alexis C ^a   Rollmann, Stephanie M ^a   Morgan, Theodore J ^a   Mackay, Trudy F C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOMICS; HERITABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; GENOMICS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33749404034     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020154     Document Type: Article

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