Article
Evolution of sociability: genome scans and gene validation.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 18 Feb 2026
Rosenbaum Jack R, Torabi-Marashi Arteen, Abdullah Sana, Audet Tyler, Scott Andrew M, Dworkin Ian, Dukas Reuven
Abstract excerpt
Sociability, defined as individuals' tendencies to affiliate with conspecifics, has positive associations with fitness in animals as well as with health, well-being, and longevity in humans. Despite its importance, we still have limited information about natural genetic variation in sociability. As part of a long-term initiative to address this knowledge gap, we quantified changes in allele frequencies in adult...
Topics
- Animals
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Male
- Female
- Social Behavior
- Gene Frequency
- Biological Evolution
- Genome, Insect