Sex-specific fitness effects of unpredictable early life conditions are associated with DNA methylation in the avian glucocorticoid receptor

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1714-1728

  Rubenstein, Dustin R ^a   Skolnik, Hannah ^a   Berrio, Alejandro ^b   Champagne, Frances A ^a   Phelps, Steven ^b   Solomon, Joseph ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

environmental predictability; epigenetics; glucocorticoids; maternal effects; Nr3c1; stress response

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; RAIN;

ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; KENYA; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STARLING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; KENYA; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RAIN; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SEX FACTORS; STARLINGS;

EID: 84948002644     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13483     Document Type: Article

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