April 11th:

Discussion:ERIK & Rebecca
Who-s-Who: Chrissy & Gus
Food: Michaela & Kate

Sanogo YO, Band M, Blatti C, Sinha S, Bell AM. 2012. Transcriptional regulation of brain gene expression in response to a territorial intrusion. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 279: 4929-38

One of Tinbergen's classic models for the study of animal behavior, the Stickleback, has become a model system with which to study the genetic basis of adaptation. In recent years this has become a genomic model and a wealth of genomic tools have been developed for these species. Thus we can now revisit the questions related to male aggresion at the genomic level. how cool is that?

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO ONLINE that is part of supplemental material.

Also, as seems to always be the case with genomics papers, there are supplemental figures and tables.

This paper applies an interesting genomic approach to identify up stream bindng sites that regulate gene expression. That technique is more thoroughly described in a recent paper on honeybees.

Ament et al (2012) New meta-analysis tools reveal common transcriptional regulatory basis for multiple determinants of behavior. PNAS