Epigenetic Shaping of Sociosexual Interactions: From Plants to Humans: Volume 86

ISBN-13: 9780128002223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 326 str.

Daisuke Yamamoto

Opis

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.

• Covers an extraordinarily wide range of biological research
• Provides a novel framework for understanding human-specific brain functions.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

1. Different in Endosperm Formation?
   Takayuki Ohnishi, Daisuke Sekine and Tetsu Kinoshita
2. MicroRNAs and the Epigenetics in Adult Neurogenesis
   Tamami Wakabayashi, Ryo Hidaka, Shin Fujimaki, Makoto Asashima and Tomoko Kuwabara
3. An Epigenetic Switch of the Brain Sex as a Basis of Gendered Behavior in Drosophila
   Kosei Sato and Daisuke Yamamoto
4. Neural Transposition in the Drosophila Brain: Is it all Bad News?
   Scott Waddell, Oliver Barnstedt and Christoph Treiber
5. Fine-Tuning Notes in the Behavioral Symphony: Parent-of-origin Allelic Gene Expression in the Brain
   Laura J. Sittig and Eva E. Redei
6. Influencing the Social Group: The Role of Imprinted Genes
   Gráinne I. McNamara and Anthony R. Isles
7. The Potential Role of SRY in Epigenetic Gene Regulation During Brain Sexual Differentiation in Mammals
   Ryohei Sekido
8. The Biological Basis of Human Sexual Orientation: Is there a Role for Epigenetics?
   Tuck C. Ngun and Eric Vilain
9. Repetitive Elements and Epigenetic Marks in Behavior and Psychiatric Disease
   Miranda M. Darby and Sarven Sabunciyan
10. Epigenetic Modifications Underlying Symbiotic-Host Interactions
    Sassan Asgari
11. Integrating Early Life Experience, Gene Expression, Brain Development and Emergent Phenotypes: Unraveling the Thread of Nature via Nurture
    Ian C.G. Weaver
    

O autorze

Daisuke Yamamoto was graduated from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 1976, and earned his PhD in 1981 from Hokkaido University. He joined Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences as a researcher in 1980, and worked there until 1999. For two years from 1981, he was trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Medical School, USA. In 1999, he was appointed as a professor in Waseda University. He assumed the current professor post at Tohoku University in April 2005, and became a distinguished professor in 2011. Yamamoto specializes in behavior genetics, particularly of fruit fly mating behaviour.