From Genes to Animal Behavior: Social Structures, Personalities, Communication by Color

ISBN-13: 9784431538912 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 413 str.

Miho Inoue-Murayama; Alexander Weiss; Shoji Kawamura

Opis

This book examines the search for causes of behavior in primates, dogs, rodents, birds, and fish, describing research on sexual and kin selection, personality and temperament, color vision and body coloration, and the neurological bases of complex behaviors.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"This edited volume contains 19 chapters that span an interesting collection of topics primarily related to animal behavior or genetics of particular behavioral traits. ... This book would be useful for a graduate student seminar if the purpose was to expose students to an overview of a number of areas, particularly personality research." (Nancy G. Solomon, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 87 (2), June, 2012)

Spis treści

1-1 Female mate choice in rodents.- 1-2 Extra-Pair Copulations and the Strength of Sexual Selection in birds.- 1-3 Male reproductive skew and paternal kin-biased behavior in primates.- 1-4 Social structures and conflict resolution in primitively eusocial Polistes wasps.- 2-1 How to measure animal personality and why does it matter? Integrating the psychological and biological approaches to animal personality.- 2-2 Evolutionary genetics of personality in nonhuman primates.- 2-3 Towards a basis for the phenotypic gambit: advances in the evolutionary genetics of animal personality.- 2-4 Applications of personality to the management and conservation of nonhuman animals.- 2-5 Developing and validating measures of temperament in livestock.- 3-1 Personality-related genes in humans and model organisms.- 3-2 Molecular behavioral research in great apes.- 3-3 "Genetics and the social behaviour of the dog" revisited: Searching for genes relating to personality in dogs.- 3-4 Personality-associated genetic variation in birds and its possible significance for avian evolution, conservation and welfare.- 4-1 Evolutionary genetics of coloration in primates and other vertebrates.- 4-2 Speciation of cichlid fishes by sensory drive.- 4-3 Evolutionary diversification of visual opsin genes in fish and primates.- 5-1 The effect of endocrine disrupting chemicals on the development of macaque socialization.- 5-2 Functional association between brain and physiological responses accompanying negative and positive emotions and its regulation by genetic factors.- 5-3 Molecular Brain Imaging For Personality Traits in Non-Human Primates: A Study in the Common Marmoset.