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ArticleNature neuroscience2019

Identity domains capture individual differences from across the behavioral repertoire.

Oren Forkosh, Stoyo Karamihalev, Simone Roeh, Uri Alon, Sergey Anpilov, Chadi Touma, Markus Nussbaumer, Cornelia Flachskamm, Paul M Kaplick, Yair Shemesh and 1 more

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Article in Nature neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Oren Forkosh *Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5956-188X
Stoyo Karamihalev *Department of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1774-1548
Simone RoehDepartment of Translational Research in Psychiatry, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Uri AlonDepartment of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Sergey AnpilovDepartment of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Chadi ToumaDepartment of Behavioral Biology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany.
Markus NussbaumerDepartment of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Cornelia FlachskammDepartment of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Paul M KaplickDepartment of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3252-2279
Yair ShemeshDepartment of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
Alon ChenDepartment of Stress Neurobiology and Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany. alon_chen@psych.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3625-8233

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Personality traits can offer considerable insight into the biological basis of individual differences. However, existing approaches toward understanding personality across species rely on subjective criteria and limited sets of behavioral readouts, which result in noisy and often inconsistent outcomes. Here we introduce a mathematical framework for describing individual differences along dimensions with maximum consistency and discriminative power. We validate this framework in mice, using data from a system for high-throughput longitudinal monitoring of group-housed male mice that yields a variety of readouts from across the behavioral repertoire of individual animals. We demonstrate a set of stable traits that capture variability in behavior and gene expression in the brain, allowing for better-informed mechanistic investigations into the biology of individual differences.

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IndividualityModels, TheoreticalPersonalitySocial BehaviorAnimalsBehavior, AnimalHierarchy, SocialMaleMice

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