Behavioral Genetics and Stress Physiology

Dear Colleagues,

The analysis of complex traits is always problematic, with potentially hundreds of loci of small effect underpinning the genetic variation of a quantitative trait. In the case of behaviour, this represents one of the hardest categories of complex traits to analyse, due to the lower repatabilities and heritabilities of the traits analysed. Despite this, knowledge of how behaviours are genetically determined can affect a vast range of different fields, from medicine to evolutionary biology. Similarly, the intersection between behaviour , stress and genetics is also of relevance, particularly with anxiety-related behaviours. For example, when measuring behaviour, it is often difficult to disentangle variation caused by environmental influences, such as stress, and differences in genotype but separating the two could enable us to identify stress sensitive genotypes. This special issue will feature studies that address the diverse field of behaviour genetics, and how it relates to a variety of topics. Statistical quantitative approaches, candidate gene analysis, QTL, GWAS and other types of genetic and genomic approaches are all applicable and encouraged for submission.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Life.

Dr. Dominic Wright
Dr. Rie Henriksen
Guest Editors

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