The gtpase activating rap/rangap domain-like 1 gene is associated with chicken reproductive traits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Shen, Xu ^a,b   Zeng, Hua ^a   Xie, Liang ^a,c   He, Jun ^a,b   Li, Jian ^a,b   Xie, Xiujuan ^a,b   Luo, Chenglong ^d   Xu, Haiping ^a,b   Zhou, Min ^e   Nie, Qinghua ^a,b   Zhang, Xiquan ^a,b  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Agro Animal Genomics and Molecular Breeding   (China)

^c Hainan Academy of Agricultural Sciences   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^e Biotechnology Institute   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GTPASE ACTIVATING RAP/RANGAP DOMAIN LIKE 1 GENE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TRAIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; EGG LAYING; GENETICS; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NESTING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

GALLUS GALLUS;

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; RALGAPA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OVIPOSITION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCTION; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84859509748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033851     Document Type: Article

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