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The remarkable development and refinement of the Cre-loxP system coupled with the nonstop production of new mouse models and virus vectors have impelled the growth of various fields of investigation. In this article, I will discuss the data collected using these genetic tools in our area of interest, giving specific emphasis to the identification of the neuronal populations that relay leptin ac...

1 Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA 2 Animal Behaviour Group, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada 3 Centre for Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia 4 Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada 5 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale Univ...

1)Department of Biology of Reproduction, Institute of Animal Production, Prague 104 01, Czech Republic, 2)Genetic Diversity Department, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Kannondai 2–1–2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305–8602, 3)Laboratory of Animal Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, Azabu University Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229– 8501, 4)Laboratory of Reproductive Biology & Biotechnology,...

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