Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Laine, Veronika N ^a   Gossmann, Toni I ^b   Schachtschneider, Kyle M ^c,d   Garroway, Colin J ^e   Madsen, Ole ^c   Verhoeven, Koen J F ^a   De Jager, Victor ^a   Megens, Hendrik Jan ^c   Warren, Wesley C ^f   Minx, Patrick ^f   Crooijmans, Richard P M A ^c   Corcoran, Pádraic ^b   Adriaensen, Frank ^g   Belda, Eduardo ^h   Bushuev, Andrey ⁱ   Cichon, Mariusz ^j   Charmantier, Anne ^k   Dingemanse, Niels ^l   Doligez, Blandine ^m   Eeva, Tapio ⁿ   Erikstad, Kjell Einar ^o   Fedorov, Slava ⁱ   Hau, Michaela ^l   Hille, Sabine ^p   Hinde, Camilla ^c   Kempenaers, Bart ^l   Kerimov, Anvar ⁱ   Krist, Milos ^q   Mand, Raivo ^r   Matthysen, Erik ^g   Nager, Reudi ^s   Norte, Claudia ^t   Orell, Markku ^u   Richner, Heinz ^v   Slagsvold, Tore ^w   Tilgar, Vallo ^r   Tinbergen, Joost ^x   Torok, Janos ^y   Tschirren, Barbara ^z   Yuta, Tera ^aa   Sheldon, Ben C ^e   Slate, Jon ^b   Zeng, Kai ^b   Van Oers, Kees ^a   Visser, Marcel E ^a,c   Groenen, Martien A M ^c   more..

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^h UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

ⁱ MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^j JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^k CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^m LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^o NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^p UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^q PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^r UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^s UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^u UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^v UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^w UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^x UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^y EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^z UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^aa HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; LEARNING; MEMORY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; PASSERINE;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DNA STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; EUROPE; GENOME; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAMMAL; MEMORY; METHYLATION; MODEL; PARUS MAJOR; PLASTICITY; SPECIES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUROPE;

MAMMALIA; PARUS MAJOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOME; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONS; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84955477815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10474     Document Type: Article

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