Anticipating spring: Wild populations of great tits (Parus major) differ in expression of key genes for photoperiodic time measurement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Perfito, Nicole ^a,b   Jeong, Sun Young ^a   Silverin, Bengt ^c   Calisi, Rebecca M ^a   Bentley, George E ^a   Hau, Michaela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARUS MAJOR; PHOTOPERIODIC TIME MEASUREMENT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; QUAIL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SONGBIRD; SPRING; SWEDEN; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOPERIODICITY;

FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE TYPE II; IODOTHYRONINE DEIODINASE TYPE III; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84859991814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034997     Document Type: Article

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