Cross-Species BAC Transgenesis Reveals Long-Range Regulation Drives Variation in Brain Oxytocin Receptor Expression and Social Behaviors
Mina Tsukamoto, Luis AE Nagai, Kiyoshi Inoue, Lenin C. Kandasamy, Maria F. Pires, Minsoo Shin, Yutaro Nagasawa, Tsetsegee Sambuu, Kenta Nakai, Shigeyoshi Itohara, Larry J. Young, Qi Zhang
The paper generates transgenic mice with prairie vole Oxtr locus to study how long-range genomic regulation affects brain OXT receptor expression and social behaviors.
bioRxiv · Dec 1, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience