Animal behaviour and molecular? - Any suggestion of how to do a research combining theese two subject? (Nov/23/2007 )

Hi, after reading out that there is animal behaviour and molecular combination as some of the forumer suggested out...I am curious to know more from those who are doing this kind of project; regarding how they decide to do the research combining theese two subject (animal behaviour and molecular). Is anyone out there can lend a help? Leave some suggestion and opinion?
Thanks in advance.

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One topic would be to look for regulation of hormones, circadian clocks, etc. Which genes are involved, how are they regulated. Animal personality and temperament is also a great deal, even in orders in which is not so obvious (e.g. insects, reptiles).
Some examples:
Mormède, P., Courvoisier, H., Ramos, A., Marissal-Arvy, N., Ousova, O., Désautés, C., Duclos, M., Chaouloff, F. & Moisan, M.-P. (2002). Molecular genetic approaches to investigate individual variations in behavioral and neuroendocrine stress responses. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 27, 563-583.

Drent, P. J., van Oers, K. & van Noordwijk, A. J. (2003). Realized heritability of personalities in the great tit (Parus major). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 270, 45-51.

Dutton, D., & Andersson, M. (2002). Personality in Royal Pythons and the human-snake relationship. Anthrozoös, 15, 243-250.

Flint, J. (2002). Animal models of personality. In J. Benjamin & R. P. Ebstein (Eds.), Molecular genetics and the human personality (pp. 63-90). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

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Even something related to psychiatric diseases where one has to deal with depression or stress models in animals has lots of molecular biology and biochemistry.

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there is some requirement to check transgenic animals on the level of behavior; although all transgenic animals are interesting subjects to analyze behavior, it is often only done in the case of (- supposed-) neuronal-specific genes

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Wow..., thanks for these information. I am looking into it. I am very weak in reading and understanding published jurnals...taking my time slowly... Thanks...hobglobin.

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I do agree that to exams the transgenic animal's behaviour is an interestig subject.

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Reading journals is a skill which takes time and practice. In the beginning it took me hours to get through one mid-sized article. Now I can run through them pretty quickly. Just keep reading and researching.. it'll get better!

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Genome mapping and genetic analyses now allow the identification of genes underlying behaviour to a level previously unimagined. There are examples of genes being cloned between species
to understand their role in behaviour. This will help to understand the genetic control of a wide range of behaviours and behaviour abnormalities.

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ya..i am indeed very slow in understanding journal...still needing time to catch up..

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