Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Social experience tweaks genome function to modify future behavior

(Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) What changes in the brain of an animal when its behavior is altered by experience? Research at the University of Illinois led by Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Lisa Stubbs is working toward an answer to this question by focusing on the collective actions of genes. In a recent Genome Research publication, Stubbs and her colleagues identified and documented the activity of networks of genes involved in the response to social stress.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2r1ZXu7

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