The Social Brain: Transcriptome Assembly and Characterization of the Hippocampus from a Social Subterranean Rodent, the Colonial Tuco-Tuco (Ctenomys sociabilis)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  MacManes, Matthew D ^a   Lacey, Eileen A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTENOMYS SOCIABILIS; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CONTIG MAPPING; FEMALE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HIPPOCAMPUS; RODENTIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALIA; CTENOMYIDAE; CTENOMYS SOCIABILIS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84866699534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045524     Document Type: Article

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