Selective breeding for a behavioral trait changes digit ratio

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Yan, Reginia H Y ^a   Malisch, Jessica L ^a   Hannon, Robert M ^b   Hurd, Peter L ^a   Garland Jr , Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FITNESS; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HORMONE ACTION; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIMB; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

MUS;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 52449085480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003216     Document Type: Article

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