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Identifying Dopamine Receptor Genes And Transcription Marbled Crayfish, Wolfgang Stein, Saisupritha Talasu
Identifying Dopamine Receptor Genes And Transcription Marbled Crayfish, Wolfgang Stein, Saisupritha Talasu
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Modulatory transmitters are major contributors to nervous system plasticity and behavioral flexibility, they determine motivational states and are involved in psychiatric and neurological disorders. Neuromodulators act through a variety of distinct receptors and due to the diversity in receptor subtypes and distribution, a single neuromodulator can exert many different actions. A prerequisite to understand the ways modulators work is thus to identify which receptors are expressed in an animal.
I studied which Dopamine receptors are present in the Procambarus virginalis, a highly invasive species of all female genetic clones with high quality genome and transcriptomes. Their broad behavioral repertoire makes …