Dynamic neurogenomic responses to social interactions and dominance outcomes in female paper wasps.

ABSTRACT: Social interactions have large effects on individual physiology and fitness. In the immediate sense, social stimuli are often highly salient and engaging. Over longer time scales, competitive interactions often lead to distinct social ranks and differences in physiology and behavior. Understanding how initial responses lead to longer-term effects of social interactions requires examining the changes in responses over time. Here we examined the effects of social interactions on transcriptomic signatures at two times, at the end of a 45-minute interaction and 4 hours later, in female Polistes fuscatus paper wasp foundresses. Female P. fuscatus have variable facial patterns that are used for visual individual recognition, so we separately examined the transcriptional dynamics in the optic lob

SUBMITTER: Uy FMK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8415593 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature