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From Genes to Animal Behavior

Social Structures, Personalities, Communication by Color

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Editors:
  1. Miho Inoue-Murayama

    1. Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Shoji Kawamura

    1. Department of Integrated Biosciences Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

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  3. Alexander Weiss

    1. Psychology School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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  • Presents the latest interdisciplinary research in behavioral diversity
  • Covers a wide range of research, using the newest and most promising methods and technologies
  • Useful to readers seeking to move beyond the boundaries of their own discipline and to expand their knowledge
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Primatology Monographs (PrimMono)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Sexual and Kin Selection in Animals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Female Mate Choice in Rodents

      • Jörns Fickel, Alexandra Weyrich
      Pages 3-33

    3. Extra-Pair Paternity and Sexual Selection

      • Emmi Schlicht, Bart Kempenaers
      Pages 35-65

    4. Male Reproductive Skew and Paternal Kin-Biased Behavior in Primates

      • Eiji Inoue
      Pages 67-81

    5. Social Structures and Conflict Resolution in Primitively Eusocial Polistes Wasps

      • Koji Tsuchida
      Pages 83-112

  3. Evolutionary Bases and Practical Implications of Animal Personality and Temperament

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. How to Measure Animal Personality and Why Does It Matter? Integrating the Psychological and Biological Approaches to Animal Personality

      • Sonja E. Koski
      Pages 115-136

    3. Evolutionary Genetics of Personality in Nonhuman Primates

      • Mark James Adams
      Pages 137-164

    4. Toward a Basis for the Phenotypic Gambit: Advances in the Evolutionary Genetics of Animal Personality

      • Kees van Oers, David L. Sinn
      Pages 165-183

    5. Applications of Personality to the Management and Conservation of Nonhuman Animals

      • David M. Powell, Marieke Cassia Gartner
      Pages 185-199

    6. Developing and Validating Measures of Temperament in Livestock

      • Simon P. Turner, Jenny M. Gibbons, Marie J. Haskell
      Pages 201-224

  4. Molecular Genetic Bases of Personality and Temperament

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Genetic Variants of the Dopaminergic System in Humans and Model Organisms

      • Kouta Kanno, Shoichi Ishiura
      Pages 227-237

    3. Molecular Behavioral Research in Great Apes

      • Miho Inoue-Murayama, Alexander Weiss, Naruki Morimura, Masayuki Tanaka, Juichi Yamagiwa, Gen’ichi Idani
      Pages 239-253

    4. “Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog” Revisited: Searching for Genes Relating to Personality in Dogs

      • Enikő Kubinyi, Mária Sasvári-Székely, Ádám Miklósi
      Pages 255-274

    5. Personality-Associated Genetic Variation in Birds and Its Possible Significance for Avian Evolution, Conservation, and Welfare

      • Andrew Fidler
      Pages 275-294

  5. Evolution of Coloration and Visual Opsin Genes in Vertebrates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295
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    2. Evolutionary Genetics of Coloration in Primates and Other Vertebrates

      • Nicholas I. Mundy
      Pages 297-310

    3. Speciation of Cichlid Fishes by Sensory Drive

      • Yohey Terai, Norihiro Okada
      Pages 311-328
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About this book

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.

Reviews

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Miho Inoue-Murayama

  • Department of Integrated Biosciences Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

    Shoji Kawamura

  • Psychology School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Alexander Weiss

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: From Genes to Animal Behavior

  • Book Subtitle: Social Structures, Personalities, Communication by Color

  • Editors: Miho Inoue-Murayama, Shoji Kawamura, Alexander Weiss

  • Series Title: Primatology Monographs

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53892-9

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-53891-2Published: 03 February 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54647-4Published: 12 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-53892-9Published: 19 January 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5967

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5975

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 413

  • Topics: Animal Genetics and Genomics

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