Behavioral idiosyncrasy reveals genetic control of phenotypic variability

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

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 6706-6711

  Ayroles, Julien F ^a,b,c   Buchanan, Sean M ^d   O'Leary, Chelsea ^a,d   Skutt Kakaria, Kyobi ^a   Grenier, Jennifer K ^c   Clark, Andrew G ^c   Hartl, Daniel L ^a   De Bivort, Benjamin L ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DGRP; Personality; Ten a; Variability; Variance QTL

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HANDEDNESS; HERITABILITY; INBRED STRAIN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; TEN A GENE; WALKING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DEFICIENCY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; INBREEDING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TEN-A PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; INBREEDING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84930225283     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503830112     Document Type: Article

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