Genetic influences on brain gene expression in rats selected for tameness and aggression

Genetics

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1277-1290

  Heyne, Henrike O ^a,b   Lautenschläger, Susann ^b   Nelson, Ronald ^c   Besnier, François ^c,d   Rotival,  maxime ^e   Cagan, Alexander ^a   Kozhemyakina, Rimma ^f   Plyusnina, Irina Z ^f   Trut, Lyudmila ^f   Carlborg, Örjan ^c   Petretto, Enrico ^e   Kruglyak, Leonid ^g,h   Pääbo, Svante ^a   Schöneberg, Torsten ^b   Albert, Frank W ^a,g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ALLELE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 10; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLTSCR2 GENE; LGI4 GENE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RAT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLC17A7 GENE; ZFP40 GENE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MESSENGER RNA;

AGGRESSION; ALLELES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84908627915     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.168948     Document Type: Article

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