A key goal of biology is to understand phenotypic characteristics, such as health, disease
and evolutionary fitness. Phenotypic variation is produced through a complex web of …

Natriuretic peptides are a family of three structurally related hormone/paracrine factors. Atrial
natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) are secreted from the cardiac …

Trade‐offs in species performances of different ecological functions is one of the most
common explanations for coexistence in communities. Despite the potential for species …

Cognition is defined as the processes by which animals collect, retain and use information
from their environment to guide their behaviour. Thus cognition is essential in a wide range …

Natural isolates of C. elegans exhibit either solitary or social feeding behavior. Solitary
foragers move slowly on a bacterial lawn and disperse across it, while social foragers move …

Genes are understandably crucial to physiology, morphology and biochemistry, but the idea
of genes contributing to individual differences in behaviour once seemed outrageous …

Naturally occuring polymorphisms in behavior are difficult to map genetically and thus are
refractory to molecular characterization. An exception is the foraging gene (for), a gene that …

The epigenetic modification of chromatin structure and its effect on complex neuronal
processes like learning and memory is an emerging field in neuroscience. However, little is …

Summary Background Odorant receptors (ORs) are thought to act in a combinatorial fashion,
in which odor identity is encoded by the activation of a subset of ORs and the olfactory …

Deciphering the genetic and neurobiological underpinnings of social behavior is a difficult
task. Simple model organisms such as C. elegans, Drosophila, and social insects display a …