Dissecting the Transcriptional Patterns of Social Dominance across Teleosts.

ABSTRACT: In many species, under varying ecological conditions, social interactions among individuals result in the formation of dominance hierarchies. Despite general similarities, there are robust differences among dominance hierarchies across species, populations, environments, life stages, sexes, and individuals. Understanding the proximate mechanisms underlying the variation is an important step toward understanding the evolution of social behavior. However, physiological changes associated with dominance, such as gonadal maturation and somatic growth, often complicate efforts to identify the specific underlying mechanisms. Traditional gene expression analyses are useful for generating candidate gene lists, but are biased by choice of significance cut-offs and difficult to use for between-study

SUBMITTER: Renn SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5146711 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature