Hippocampal commissure defects in crosses of four inbred mouse strains with absent corpus callosum

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 757-766

  Bohlen, M O ^a,b   Bailoo, J D ^a   Jordan, R L ^a   Wahlsten, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementation test; Complex trait; Four way hybrid cross; Inbred strains; Reciprocal hybrid cross

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENETIC LINKAGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INBRED STRAIN; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGENESIS OF CORPUS CALLOSUM; ALLELES; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84867336353     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00802.x     Document Type: Article

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