Susan C. P. Renn

TL;DR: This review presents examples of integrative studies that illustrate the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying plastic traits, and shows how new techniques will grow in importance in the study of these plastic molecular processes.

TL;DR: It is found that environmental and social factors differentially affect the brain, with environmental factors showing a broader effect on a range of brain structures compared to social factors.

TL;DR: This work validates the use of expression profiling for functional genomics within a comparative framework and provides a foundation for the molecular and cellular analysis of complex traits in a wide range of organisms.

TL;DR: The results of the present study demonstrate the molecular complexity in the brain underlying social behavior, identify novel targets for future studies, validate many candidate genes and exploit individual variation in order to gain biological insights.

TL;DR: The collection and annotation of more than 12,000 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) generated from three different cDNA libraries obtained from the East African haplochromine cichlid species Astatotilapia burtoni and Metriaclima zebra found that four genes showed the signature of positive selection as revealed by calculating Ka/Ks ratios.