Long-Range Regulatory Polymorphisms Affecting a GABA Receptor Constitute a Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) for Social Behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Bendesky, Andres ^a   Pitts, Jason ^a   Rockman, Matthew V ^b   Chen, William C ^c   Tan, Man Wah ^c   Kruglyak, Leonid ^d   Bargmann, Cornelia I ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CARRIER PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; PROTEIN DAF 7; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION STRAIN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBRED STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RECEPTOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GLOBINS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84872013781     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003157     Document Type: Article

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