The post-natal chemosensory environment induces epigenetic changes in vomeronasal receptor gene expression and a bias in olfactory preference

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 461-471

  Broad, Kevin D ^a,b   Keverne, Eric B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epigenetic; Heterozygosity; Main olfactory receptors; Major urinary proteins; Olfactory preference; Small nucleolar RNA; Vomeronasal receptors

Indexed keywords

LIPOCALIN; MAJOR URINARY PROTEIN 1; MAJOR URINARY PROTEIN 2; MAJOR URINARY PROTEIN 4; MAJOR URINARY PROTEIN 5; PHEROMONE; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL REGULATORY RNA 115; SMALL REGULATORY RNA 116; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOMERONASAL RECEPTOR 1; VOMERONASAL RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERACTIONS WITH NUCLEIC ACID; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMELLING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; RNA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMELL; URINE; VOMERONASAL ORGAN;

MUS;

EID: 84864586200     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-011-9523-9     Document Type: Article

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