Using individual coping styles to explain within-population variation in adaptive gene expression

ABSTRACT: Individual stress coping style has profound effects on how animals respond to environmental change, and individuals within a population strikingly differ in how gene expression shifts in response to challenge. This study used a wild type Zebrafish (Danio rerio) population to: 1) identify and screen for individual coping style using a screening protocol for risk taking in groups and 2) do global transcriptomics of brains from proactive, reactive or randomly chosen individuals (n=10/group) under control conditions. Results show that within our population proactive and reactive individual coping styles can be accurately identified and may represent 10-30% of individuals within the population. Microarray data analyses identify fundamental differences between the three different groups where va

ORGANISM(S): Danio rerio

SUBMITTER: Sebastian Boltana 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-40615 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress