Recombinant inbred systems can advance research in behavioral ecology

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Gini, Beatrice ^a   Hager, Reinmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; BXD; QTL; Recombinant inbred; Systems genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876124897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00198     Document Type: Article

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