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Litter Size Variation in Hypothalamic Gene Expression Determines Adult Metabolic Phenotype in Brandt's Voles (Lasiopodomys brandtii)

BACKGROUND: Early postnatal environments may have long-term and potentially irreversible consequences on hypothalamic neurons involved in energy homeostasis. Litter size is an important life history trait and negatively correlated with milk intake in small mammals, and thus has been regarded as a na...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Xue-Ying, Zhang, Qiang, Wang, De-Hua
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21637839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019913