Expression change in angiopoietin-1 underlies change in relative brain size in fish

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1810, 2015, Pages

  Chen, Yu Chia ^a   Harrison, Peter W ^b   Kotrschal, Alexander ^c,d   Kolm, Niclas ^c,d   Mank, Judith E ^b   Panula, Pertti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Brain size; Gene expression; Knock down; Neuro transcriptome

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CYPRINID; GENE EXPRESSION; NEUROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO; POECILIA RETICULATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANGIOPOIETIN; ANGPTL1 PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; POECILIA; ZEBRA FISH;

ANGIOPOIETINS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; MALE; POECILIA; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84933056280     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0872     Document Type: Article

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