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Epigenetic Shaping of Sociosexual Interactions: From Plants to Humans is the first attempt to interpret the higher social functions of organisms. This volume covers an extraordinarily wide range of biological research and provides a novel framework for understanding human-specific brain functions.
List of contents
- Different in Endosperm Formation?
Takayuki Ohnishi, Daisuke Sekine and Tetsu Kinoshita - MicroRNAs and the Epigenetics in Adult Neurogenesis
Tamami Wakabayashi, Ryo Hidaka, Shin Fujimaki, Makoto Asashima and Tomoko Kuwabara - An Epigenetic Switch of the Brain Sex as a Basis of Gendered Behavior in Drosophila
Kosei Sato and Daisuke Yamamoto - Neural Transposition in the Drosophila Brain: Is it all Bad News?
Scott Waddell, Oliver Barnstedt and Christoph Treiber - Fine-Tuning Notes in the Behavioral Symphony: Parent-of-origin Allelic Gene Expression in the Brain
Laura J. Sittig and Eva E. Redei - Influencing the Social Group: The Role of Imprinted Genes
Gráinne I. McNamara and Anthony R. Isles - The Potential Role of SRY in Epigenetic Gene Regulation During Brain Sexual Differentiation in Mammals
Ryohei Sekido - The Biological Basis of Human Sexual Orientation: Is there a Role for Epigenetics?
Tuck C. Ngun and Eric Vilain - Repetitive Elements and Epigenetic Marks in Behavior and Psychiatric Disease
Miranda M. Darby and Sarven Sabunciyan - Epigenetic Modifications Underlying Symbiotic-Host Interactions
Sassan Asgari - Integrating Early Life Experience, Gene Expression, Brain Development and Emergent Phenotypes: Unraveling the Thread of Nature via Nurture
Ian C.G. Weaver
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Praise for previous volumes in the series:
"Outstanding both in variety and in the quality of its contributions." -Nature
"Can be highly recommended to geneticists, and biologists in general...will prove to be of high importance for the development of the science of genetics." --Science
