Genetic architecture of natural variation in Drosophila melanogaster aggressive behavior

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

Volumn 112, Issue 27, 2015, Pages E3555-E3563

  Shorter, John ^a   Couch, Charlene ^a   Huang, Wen ^a   Carbone, Mary Anna ^a   Peiffer, Jason ^b   Anholt, Robert R H ^a   Mackay, Trudy F C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced intercross population; Drosophila genetic reference panel; Epistasis; Extreme qtl mapping; Genome wide association mapping

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPISTASIS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN GENETICS; INBRED STRAIN; KARYOTYPE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TASTE BUD; VALIDATION STUDY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS BREEDING; GENE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INBREEDING; INSECT GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GR63A PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, INSECT; HUMANS; INBREEDING; MUTATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84936851454     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510104112     Document Type: Article

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