Positive selection on NIN, a gene involved in neurogenesis, and primate brain evolution

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 903-910

  Montgomery, S H ^a   Mundy, N I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Brain evolution; Neurogenesis; NIN; Primates; Radial unit hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GLIA CELL; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NIN GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CYTOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENETICS; GLIA; HOMINID; HUMAN; PLATYRRHINI; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CEBUS; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; NIN PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EXONS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84877000003     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00844.x     Document Type: Article

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