Evolutionary pattern in the OXT-OXTR system in primates: Coevolution and positive selection footprints

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-93

  Vargas Pinilla, Pedro ^a   Paixa¸o Côrtes, Vanessa Rodrigues ^a   Paré, Pamela ^a   Tovo Rodrigues, Luciana ^a   De Alencar Gadelha Vieira, Carlos Meton ^a   Xavier, Agatha ^a   Comas, David ^b   Pissinatti, Alcides ^c   Sinigaglia, Marialva ^a   Rigo, Maurício Menegatti ^a   Vieira, Gustavo Fioravanti ^a   Lucion, Aldo B ^a   Salzano, Francisco Mauro ^a   Bortolini, Maria Cátira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c Centro de Primatologia do Rio de Janeiro   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Behavior; Coevolution; OXT; OXTR; Primates

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; LEUCINE; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROLINE; THREONINE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEBIDAE; COEVOLUTION; CROSS REACTION; FEMALE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LITTER SIZE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PLATYRRHINI; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE;

CEBIDAE; EUTHERIA; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYTOCIN; PRIMATES; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84920367995     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1419399112     Document Type: Article

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