Oxytocin and vasopressin receptor gene variation as a proximate base for inter- and intraspecific behavioral differences in bonobos and chimpanzees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Staes, Nicky ^a,b   Stevens, Jeroen M G ^a,b   Helsen, Philippe ^a,b   Hillyer, Mia ^b,d   Korody, Marisa ^c   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^d WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR; MICROSATELLITE DNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AVPR1A GENE; BINDING SITE; BONOBO; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXTR GENE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BONDING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

PAN; PAN PANISCUS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84955092788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113364     Document Type: Article

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