Genetic architecture of tameness in a rat model of animal domestication

Genetics

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 541-554

  Albert, Frank W ^a   Carlborg, Örjan ^b   Plyusnina, Irina ^c   Besnier, Francois ^b   Hedwig, Daniela ^a   Lautenschläger, Susann ^a   Lorenz, Doreen ^a   McIntosh, Jenny ^a   Neumann, Christof ^a   Richter, Henning ^a   Zeising, Claudia ^a   Kozhemyakina, Rimma ^c   Shchepina, Olesya ^c   Kratzsch, Jürgen ^d   Trut, Lyudmila ^c   Teupser, Daniel ^d   Thiery, Joachim ^d   Schöneberg, Torsten ^e   Andersson, Leif ^b,f   Pääbo, Svante ^a,g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATININE;

ADRENAL GLAND; AGGRESSION; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DOMESTICATION; FEMALE; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC MARKER; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RAT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HAIR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOMICS; HAIR; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 68949198769     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.102186     Document Type: Article

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