Neuromolecular responses to social challenge: Common mechanisms across mouse, stickleback fish, and honey bee

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 111; no. 50; pp. 17929 - 17934
• Main Authors: Rittschof, Clare C., Bukhari, Syed Abbas, Sloofman, Laura G., Troy, Joseph M., Caetano-Anollés, Derek, Cash-Ahmed, Amy, Kent, Molly, Lu, Xiaochen, Sanogo, Yibayiri O., Weisner, Patricia A., Zhang, Huimin, Bell, Alison M., Ma, Jian, Sinha, Saurabh, Robinson, Gene E., Stubbs, Lisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 16.12.2014; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: Animals; Apis mellifera; Base Sequence; Bees; Bees - genetics; Bees - physiology; Biological Evolution; Biological Sciences; Brain; Brain - physiology; chromosomes; DNA Primers - genetics; Energy conservation; Energy metabolism; Energy Metabolism - physiology; Evolution; Evolutionary genetics; Fish; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Genes; Genomics; Genomics - methods; Genotype & phenotype; Honey; Honey bees; Human aggression; Immunohistochemistry; Insect genetics; Mice; Microscopy, Fluorescence; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Molecular Sequence Data; Mus musculus; neurodevelopment; Neurons; Nonnative species; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Rodents; Sequence Analysis, RNA; signal transduction; Signal Transduction - physiology; Smegmamorpha - genetics; Smegmamorpha - physiology; Social Behavior; Species diversity; Species Specificity; Territoriality; transcription (genetics); transcription factors; Transcription Factors - metabolism; NF-κB signaling; brain metabolism; genetic hotspot; aggression

Significance In some cases similar molecular programs (i.e., conserved genes and gene networks) underlie the expression of phenotypic traits that evolve repeatedly across diverse species. We investigated this possibility in the context of social behavioral response, using a comparative genomics appr...