Abstract
Animal behavioural traits often covary with gene expression, pointing towards a genomic constraint on organismal responses to environmental cues. This pattern highlights a gap in our understanding of the time course of environmentally responsive gene expression, and moreover, how these dynamics are regulated. Advances in behavioural genomics explore how gene expression dynamics are correlated with behavioural traits that range from stable to highly labile. We consider the idea that certain genomic regulatory mechanisms may predict the timescale of an environmental effect on behaviour. This temporally minded approach could inform both organismal and evolutionary questions ranging from the remediation of early life social trauma to understanding the evolution of trait plasticity.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-12-2018
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02971-0
Funding Information
The workshop that led to this paper was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF-IOS 1623898; PI: AM Bell), the NSF Sociogenomics RCN, and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. K.A.H. is supported by the National Science Foundation (IOS-1257735, IOS-1354775, and DEB-1740466).
Repository Citation
Rittschof, Clare C. and Hughes, Kimberly A., "Advancing Behavioural Genomics by Considering Timescale" (2018). Entomology Faculty Publications. 159.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/entomology_facpub/159
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Nature Communications, v. 9, article no. 489, p. 1-11.
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