TY - JOUR
T1 - Sociogenomics
T2 - Social life in molecular terms
AU - Robinson, Gene E.
AU - Grozinger, Christina M.
AU - Whitfield, Charles W.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank H.A. Hoffman and R.E. Lenski for helpful advice. We also thank A.B. Barron, Y. Ben-Shahar, G. Bloch, S.E. Fahrbach, A.L. Toth, B. Schatz, M.B. Sokolowski and three anonymous reviewers for comments that improved the manuscript. Research by the authors was supported by grants from the US National Institutes of Health, US National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture and the Burroughs Wellcome Trust (G.E.R.), a University of Illinois-Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship (C.M.G.), and a US National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioinformatics (C.W.W.).
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - Spectacular progress in molecular biology, genome-sequencing projects and genomics makes this an appropriate time to attempt a comprehensive understanding of the molecular basis of social life. Promising results have already been obtained in identifying genes that influence animal social behaviour and genes that are implicated in social evolution. These findings - derived from an eclectic mix of species that show varying levels of sociality - provide the foundation for the integration of molecular biology, genomics, neuroscience, behavioural biology and evolutionary biology that is necessary for this endeavour.
AB - Spectacular progress in molecular biology, genome-sequencing projects and genomics makes this an appropriate time to attempt a comprehensive understanding of the molecular basis of social life. Promising results have already been obtained in identifying genes that influence animal social behaviour and genes that are implicated in social evolution. These findings - derived from an eclectic mix of species that show varying levels of sociality - provide the foundation for the integration of molecular biology, genomics, neuroscience, behavioural biology and evolutionary biology that is necessary for this endeavour.
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U2 - 10.1038/nrg1575
DO - 10.1038/nrg1575
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15761469
AN - SCOPUS:15944368922
SN - 1471-0056
VL - 6
SP - 257
EP - 270
JO - Nature Reviews Genetics
JF - Nature Reviews Genetics
IS - 4
ER -