Genetic contributions to behavioural diversity at the gene-environment interface

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 809-820

  Bendesky, Andres ^a   Bargmann, Cornelia I ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DNA MARKER; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMORECEPTOR; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION STRAIN; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMOTIONALITY; ENDOPHENOTYPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTROGRESSION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 81355138982     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3065     Document Type: Review

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