Epigenomics and gene regulation in mammalian social systems
- Social epigenomics is a new field of research that studies how the social environment shapes the epigenome and how in turn the epigenome modulates behavior. We focus on describing known gene-environment interactions (GEIs) and epigenetic mechanisms in different mammalian social systems. To illustrate how epigenetic mechanisms integrate GEls, we highlight examples where epigenetic mechanisms are associated with social behaviors and with their maintenance through neuroendocrine, locomotor, and metabolic responses. We discuss future research trajectories and open questions for the emerging field of social epigenomics in nonmodel and naturally occurring social systems. Finally, we outline the technological advances that aid the study of epigenetic mechanisms in the establishment of GEIs and vice versa.
| Author details: | Tania P. Guerrero, Jörns FickelORCiDGND, Sarah Benhaiem, Alexandra WeyrichORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa005 |
| ISSN: | 1674-5507 |
| ISSN: | 2396-9814 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32440291 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Current zoology |
| Publisher: | Oxford Univ. Press |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/02/25 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Release date: | 2023/11/16 |
| Tag: | DNA methylation; epigenetics; histone modification; rank; social status; social systems |
| Volume: | 66 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Number of pages: | 13 |
| First page: | 307 |
| Last Page: | 319 |
| Funding institution: | Leibniz Competition Fund [SAW-2018-IZW-3-EpiRank] |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie |
| DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| DOAJ gelistet | |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
