Large sex differences in chicken behavior and brain gene expression coincide with few differences in promoter DNA-methylation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Nätt, Daniel ^a   Agnvall, Beatrix ^a   Jensen, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EGG LAYING; EGG SIZE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; THALAMUS; ZINC FINGER RNA BINDING PROTEIN GENE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHICKENS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84899747589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096376     Document Type: Article

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