High variability and non-neutral evolution of the mammalian avpr1a gene

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fink, Sabine ^a   Excoffier, Laurent ^a   Heckel, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN 1A RECEPTOR; ARGIPRESSIN RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MATING SYSTEM; MICROTUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN VARIANT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOLE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MURIDAE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36849095602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-176     Document Type: Article

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