Relating quantitative variation within a behavior to variation in transcription.

ABSTRACT: Many studies have shown that variation in transcription is associated with changes in behavioral state, or with variation within a state, but little has been done to address if the same genes are involved in both. Here, we investigate the transcriptional basis of variation in parental provisioning using two species of burying beetle, Nicrophorus orbicollis and Nicrophorus vespilloides. We used RNA-seq to compare transcription in parents that provided high amounts of provisioning behavior versus low amounts in males and females of each species. We found no overarching transcriptional patterns distinguishing high from low caring parents, and no informative transcripts that displayed particularly large expression differences in either sex. However, we did find subtler gene expression differen

SUBMITTER: Benowitz KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5555821 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature