Mating system and avpr1a promoter variation in primates

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 375-378

  Rosso, Lia ^a   Keller, Laurent ^a   Kaessmann, Henrik ^a   Hammond, Robert L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

avpr1a; Mating behaviour; Microsatellites; Primates; Vasopressin; Voles

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA; VASOPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN V1A RECEPTOR;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; MALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVPR1A GENE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE; MALE; MATING TYPE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MURIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 46949111488     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0122     Document Type: Article

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