A Selfish Genetic Element Influencing Longevity Correlates with Reactive Behavioural Traits in Female House Mice (Mus domesticus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Auclair, Yannick ^a   König, Barbara ^a   Lindholm, Anna K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUS DOMESTICUS; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; REACTIVE PERSONALITY TRAIT; SELFISH GENETIC ELEMENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MICE; PERSONALITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84879485421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067130     Document Type: Article

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