Haplotype structure, adaptive history and associations with exploratory behaviour of the DRD4 gene region in four great tit (Parus major) populations

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2797-2809

  Mueller, Jakob C ^a   Korsten, Peter ^a,g   Hermannstaedter, Christine ^a   Feulner, Thomas ^b   Dingemanse, Niels J ^a,c   Matthysen, Erik ^d   Van Oers, Kees ^e   Van Overveld, Thijs ^d   Patrick, Samantha C ^f,h   Quinn, John L ^f,i   Riemenschneider, Matthias ^b   Tinbergen, Joost M ^g   Kempenaers, Bart ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h CNRS   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

animal personality; candidate gene; dopamine receptor D4; extended haplotype homozygosity; FST; genotype phenotype association; linkage disequilibrium; signature of selection; Tajima's D

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EUROPE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D4; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 84876809941     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12282     Document Type: Article

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