Read the Article by Renn and Colleagues (2008), "Fish and Chips

Essay

Read the article by Renn and colleagues (2008), "Fish and Chips: Functional Genomics of Social Plasticity in an African Cichlid Fish" (Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 211, pp. 3041-3056) and the article by Aubin-Horth and colleagues (2012), "Natural Variation in the Molecular Stress Network Correlates with a Behavioural Syndrome" (Hormones and Behavior, vol. 61, pp. 140-146). Compare and contrast the molecular genetic approaches used by these two teams of researchers to reveal the genetic correlates of social plasticity and an aggression-boldness behavioral syndrome, respectively. In what ways do these studies shed light on the complexities underlying behavioral traits?