Inheritance of acquired behaviour adaptations and brain gene expression in chickens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Nätt, Daniel ^a   Lindqvist, Niclas ^a,d   Stranneheim, Henrik ^b   Lundeberg, Joakim ^b   Torjesen, Peter A ^c   Jensen, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c AKER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD INDUCIBLE RNA BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN 2; GENE PRODUCT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 8 INTERACTING PROTEIN 3; PERIOD HOMOLOG 2; PROTEIN SOUL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CALORIC INTAKE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; EGG YOLK; EPIGENETICS; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRAIT; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROGENY; SURVIVAL RATE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHICKENS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 68149159890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006405     Document Type: Article

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