Figure contributed by Coni Hoerndli

Noncanonical genomic imprinting in the monoamine system determines naturalistic foraging and brain-adrenal axis functions

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“The revelation that maternal and paternal alleles of the same gene along the brain-adrenal axis could have disparate, or possibly even antagonistic, phenotypic consequences on behavior is an intriguing observation,” says the paper’s first author, Paul Bonthuis, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Biosciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.