Behavior-genetic Analysis

Behavior-genetic Analysis
Author: Jerry Hirsch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1982
Genre: Science
ISBN:

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Genetics, Environment, and Behavior

Genetics, Environment, and Behavior
Author: Lee Ehrman
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1483269159

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Genetics, Environment, and Behavior: Implications for Educational Policy is a collection of papers from the "Genetic Endowment and Environment in the Determination of Behavior" workshop in New York in October 1971. The book discusses the relationships between genetic characteristics and behavior as being significant in understanding human behavior and learning. The text also considers the different approaches made by geneticists and psychologists on this subject. Several papers review, in terms of both quantitative and qualitative analysis, the role that genetics and the environment play in determining behavior. One paper explains the possible role of genetic determination in behaviors as found in mice and men that show high probabilities of heritabilities. Another paper tackles biochemical genetics and explains the evolution of human behavior by addressing the enzyme variations in human brains and the role of language and culture. The book also cites gene-environment interactions and the variability that can be found in behavior with references to the works of Ginsburg (1967) and Vale and Vale (1969). One paper comments on the future of human behavior genetics, highlighting the distinction between what should happen and what most probably will happen. This text is suitable for sociologists, behavioral scientists, geneticists, educators, and students in psychology, psychiatry, and related branches of medicine.

Behavioral Genetics of the Fly (Drosophila Melanogaster)

Behavioral Genetics of the Fly (Drosophila Melanogaster)
Author: Josh Dubnau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2014-06-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107009030

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A comprehensive portrayal of the behaviour genetics of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and the methods used in these studies.

Genetic Analysis of the Maintenance of Neuronal Morphology in Drosophila Melanogaster

Genetic Analysis of the Maintenance of Neuronal Morphology in Drosophila Melanogaster
Author: Jessica LaMae Whited
Publisher:
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2006
Genre:
ISBN:

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(Cont.) Establishment and maintenance of complex axonal trajectories is also a key feature of neuronal mophology. I identified a requirement for a novel cytoplasmic tyrosine phosphatase, PTPMEG, in these processes. Normal mushroom bodies, structures critical for insect learning and memory, have dorsally-projecting alpha lobe and medially-projecting beta lobe axons. Alpha lobes develop normally in ptpmeg mutants, but their pattern is not maintained. Instead, alpha lobe axons retract during pupation, resulting in thin and/or shortened alpha lobes. Meanwhile, beta lobe axons overextend at the midline. Removing ptpmeg function in mushroom bodies does not cause mutant phenotypes. ptpmeg mutants are rescued by pan-neuronal expression of wild-type Ptpmeg, but not by versions with disrupted phosphatase activity. These data suggest that Ptpmeg activity is required in another type of neuron to prevent mushroom body axon retraction. Ellipsoid body axons normally form a ring structure in the central brain. In ptpmeg mutants, the ellipsoid body axons develop abnormally, with the ventral side of the ring being discontinuous; the defect can be rescued by expression of wild-type Ptpmeg pan-neuronally.

Theoretical Advances in Behavior Genetics

Theoretical Advances in Behavior Genetics
Author: University of Alberta. Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 732
Release: 1979
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Theoretical Advances in Behavior Genetics, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 29-October 8, 1978