Natural variation in the molecular stress network correlates with a behavioural syndrome

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-146

  Aubin Horth, Nadia ^a,b   Deschênes, Marilou ^a,b   Cloutier, Sophie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndrome; Gene expression; Glucocorticoid receptor; HPI axis; Personality; Proopiomelanocortin

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR GENE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR 1 GENE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR 2 GENE; MELANOCORTICOID RECEPTOR GENE; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN GENE; UPREGULATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SMEGMAMORPHA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84855961770     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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