Social boldness correlates with brain gene expression in male green anoles.

ABSTRACT: Within populations, some individuals tend to exhibit a bold or shy social behavior phenotype relative to the mean. The neural underpinnings of these differing phenotypes - also described as syndromes, personalities, and coping styles - is an area of ongoing investigation. Although a social decision-making network has been described across vertebrate taxa, most studies examining activity within this network do so in relation to exhibited differences in behavioral expression. Our study instead focuses on constitutive gene expression in bold and shy individuals by isolating baseline gene expression profiles that influence social boldness predisposition, rather than those reflecting the results of social interaction and behavioral execution. We performed this study on male green anole lizards

SUBMITTER: Kabelik D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8277760 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature