Meng Zhao

TL;DR: Results to date identify promising avenues for further studies on the endocrine basis of activity levels, and ways in which behavior coadapts with other aspects of the phenotype can be studied directly through artificial selection and experimental evolution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify isthmin-1 (Ism1) as an adipokine and one that has a dual role in increasing adipose glucose uptake while suppressing hepatic lipid synthesis.

TL;DR: The possibility that vasopressinergic and possibly oxytocinergic signaling within the brain, modulated by gonadal steroid hormones, may represent the "final common pathway" mediating effects of developmental and experiential variables on intra- and inter-individual variation in paternal care is discussed.

TL;DR: There is a need to increase the molecular and mechanistic understanding of signal diversification of RTK actions in metabolic disease, as well as highlighting unexpected roles of non-classical RTK ligands that crosstalk with other receptor pathways.

TL;DR: In the biparental California mouse, an environmental challenge affects metabolically important physiological, morphological and behavioral measures in males, but these effects do not differ between non-reproductive males and fathers.