The mate choice brain: Comparing gene profiles between female choice and male coercive poeciliids

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 222-229

  Lynch, K S ^a   Ramsey, M E ^a   Cummings, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Coercive mating; Mate choice; Neuroligin 3; Neuroserpin; NMDA receptor; Poeciliid

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROLIGIN; NEUROLIGIN 3; NEUROSERPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MATING SYSTEM; MOSQUITO FISH; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POECILIID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWORDTAIL;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COERCION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; POECILIA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SERPINS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

GAMBUSIA AFFINIS; PISCES; POECILIIDAE; VERTEBRATA; XIPHOPHORUS;

EID: 84856328949     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2011.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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