Heterozygosity-behaviour correlations in nine-spined stickleback (Pungitius pungitius) populations: Contrasting effects at random and functional loci

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 4872-4884

  Laine, Veronika N ^a   Herczeg, Gábor ^b,c   Shikano, Takahito ^b   Primmer, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

aggression; behaviour; boldness; heterozygosity; microsatellites; nine spined stickleback

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SMEGMAMORPHA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SMEGMAMORPHA;

PUNGITIUS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS;

EID: 84867096085     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05741.x     Document Type: Article

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