A domestication related mutation in the thyroid stimulating hormone receptor gene (TSHR) modulates photoperiodic response and reproduction in chickens

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 228, Issue , 2016, Pages 69-78

  Karlsson, Anna Carin ^a   Fallahshahroudi, Amir ^a   Johnsen, Hanna ^a   Hagenblad, Jenny ^a   Wright, Dominic ^a   Andersson, Leif ^b   Jensen, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chicken; DIO2; DIO3; Domestication; Gallus gallus; TSHB

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY LENGTH; DIO2 GENE; DIO3 GENE; DOMESTICATION; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; LEGHORN CHICKEN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL MATURITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWEDEN; TESTIS SIZE; TSHB GENE; TSHR GENE; WHITE LEGHORN CHICKEN; ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BREEDING; CHICKENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MUTATION; PHOTOPERIOD; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84958236098     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2016.02.010     Document Type: Article

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