Epigenetic Shaping of Sociosexual Interactions: From Plants to Humans

Daisuke Yamamoto was graduated from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 1976, and earned his PhD in 1981 from Hokkaido University. He joined Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences as a researcher in 1980, and worked there until 1999. For two years from 1981, he was trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Medical School, USA. In 1999, he was appointed as a professor in Waseda University. He assumed the current professor post at Tohoku University in April 2005, and became a distinguished professor in 2011. Yamamoto specializes in behavior genetics, particularly of fruit fly mating behaviour.

Praise for previous volumes in the series:"Outstanding both in variety and in the quality of its contributions." –Nature"Can be highly recommended to geneticists, and biologists in general...will prove to be of high importance for the development of the science of genetics." --Science

• Different in Endosperm Formation?Takayuki Ohnishi, Daisuke Sekine and Tetsu KinoshitaMicroRNAs and the Epigenetics in Adult NeurogenesisTamami Wakabayashi, Ryo Hidaka, Shin Fujimaki, Makoto Asashima and Tomoko KuwabaraAn Epigenetic Switch of the Brain Sex as a Basis of Gendered Behavior in DrosophilaKosei Sato and Daisuke YamamotoNeural Transposition in the Drosophila Brain: Is it all Bad News?Scott Waddell, Oliver Barnstedt and Christoph TreiberFine-Tuning Notes in the Behavioral Symphony: Parent-of-origin Allelic Gene Expression in the BrainLaura J. Sittig and Eva E. RedeiInfluencing the Social Group: The Role of Imprinted GenesGráinne I. McNamara and Anthony R. IslesThe Potential Role of SRY in Epigenetic Gene Regulation During Brain Sexual Differentiation in MammalsRyohei SekidoThe Biological Basis of Human Sexual Orientation: Is there a Role for Epigenetics?Tuck C. Ngun and Eric VilainRepetitive Elements and Epigenetic Marks in Behavior and Psychiatric DiseaseMiranda M. Darby and Sarven SabunciyanEpigenetic Modifications Underlying Symbiotic-Host InteractionsSassan AsgariIntegrating Early Life Experience, Gene Expression, Brain Development and Emergent Phenotypes: Unraveling the Thread of Nature via NurtureIan C.G. Weaver