ArticleMolecular ecology2016
Molecular mechanisms and the conflict between courtship and aggression in three-spined sticklebacks.
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- Managing the tradeoff between reproduction and survival requires flexibility in behaviour and gene regulation in three-spined stickleback.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- A distinct neurogenomic response to a trade-off between social challenge and opportunity in male sticklebacks (Biology letters · 2023Article
- Threespine Stickleback: A Model System For Evolutionary Genomics.Annual review of genomics and human genetics · 2021Review
- Design, challenges, and the potential of transcriptomics to understand social behavior.Current zoology · 2020Article
- Neurogenomic insights into paternal care and its relation to territorial aggression.Nature communications · 2019Article
- The origins and evolution of sleep.The Journal of experimental biology · 2018Review
- Genomic tools for behavioural ecologists to understand repeatable individual differences in behaviour.Nature ecology & evolution · 2018Review
- Neurogenomic Profiling Reveals Distinct Gene Expression Profiles Between Brain Parts That Are Consistent inFrontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
In nature, animals often face conflicting demands. For example, breeding males must attract a mate but at the same time be ready to defend against rivals. The molecular mechanisms by which the brain resolves behavioural trade-offs are largely unknown. In this study, we compared the brain transcriptional responses of territorial male three-spined sticklebacks to a mating opportunity with a female and to a territorial challenge by a rival male. We focused on the diencephalon and the cerebellum, two regions of the brain implicated in courtship and aggression. There was a set of genes that were differentially expressed in response to both a courtship opportunity and a territorial challenge. Closer inspection of the direction of regulation revealed that genes that were downregulated in response to a courtship opportunity were upregulated in response to a territorial challenge and vice versa. Our study reveals some of the potential molecular mechanisms underlying behavioural trade-offs between sex and aggression, along with a possible solution to the conflict via social context-dependent gene regulation.
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