Transcriptional regulation of brain gene expression in response to a territorial intrusion

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1749, 2012, Pages 4929-4938

  Sanogo, Yibayiri O ^a   Band, Mark ^a   Blatti, Charles ^a   Sinha, Saurabh ^a   Bell, Alison M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Gene expression regulation; Microarray; Sociogenomics; Stickleback

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BRAIN; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; TELEOST; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 84869123518     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2087     Document Type: Article

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