From Genes to Animal Behavior
Social Structures, Personalities, Communication by Color
Published on 12. October 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVIII, 413 pages
978-4-431-54647-4 (ISBN)
Description
The biological and genetic bases of behavioral diversity have long been topics of study within many disciplines, including evolutionary biology, genetics, ethology, sociobiology, and comparative psychology, but only relatively recently have attempts been made to bring these different approaches together. This volume covers a wide range of interdisciplinary research which uses some of the newest and most promising methods and technologies. Presented here is an overview of findings in the ongoing search for the ultimate causes of behavior in several different species, including primates, dogs, rodents, birds, and fish. Divided into five parts, the work describes research on sexual and kin selection, personality and temperament, molecular genetics of personality, color vision and body coloration, and the neurological underpinnings of complex behaviors. Valuable for researchers as well as graduate students in a wide range of fields from neuroscience to ecology, the book is also useful to those seeking to move beyond the boundaries of their own discipline and to expand their knowledge.
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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)More details
Series
Edition
2011 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Tokyo
Japan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XVIII, 413 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
651 gr
ISBN-13
978-4-431-54647-4 (9784431546474)
DOI
10.1007/978-4-431-53892-9
Schweitzer Classification
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Miho Inoue-Murayama | Shoji Kawamura | Alexander Weiss
From Genes to Animal Behavior
Social Structures, Personalities, Communication by Color
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02/2011
1st Edition
Springer
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Miho Inoue-Murayama | Shoji Kawamura | Alexander Weiss
From Genes to Animal Behavior
Social Structures, Personalities, Communication by Color
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01/2011
1st Edition
Springer
€106.99
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Content
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.