Molecules and mating: Positive selection and reproductive behaviour in primates

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 739, Issue , 2012, Pages 218-236

  Knapp, Leslie A ^a   Innocent, Simeon H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); BETA MICROSEMINOPROTEIN; KALLIKREIN; KALLIKREIN 2; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PHEROMONE; PROTAMINE; PROTAMINE P1; PROTAMINE P2; PROTEIN GLUTAMINE GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR D2 GENE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR D4 GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX GENE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOAMINE OXIDASE A GENE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR GENE; OPSIN GENE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SELECTIVE ABORTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPERM COMPETITION; X CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPERMATOZOON;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; PRIMATES; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84859557742     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1704-0_14     Document Type: Article

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