title: Taxon matters: promoting integrative studies of social behavior: NESCent Working Group on Integrative Models of Vertebrate Sociality: Evolution, Mechanisms, and Emergent Properties.
abstract: The neural and molecular mechanisms underlying social behavior - including their functional significance and evolution - can only be fully understood using data obtained under multiple social, environmental, and physiological conditions. Understanding the complexity of social behavior requires integration across levels of analysis in both laboratory and field settings. However, there is currently a disconnect between the systems studied in the laboratory versus the field. We argue that recent conceptual and technical advances provide exciting new opportunities to close this gap by making non-model organisms accessible to modern approaches in both laboratory and nature.
authors: Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Division of Behavioural Ecology, University of Bern, Wohlenstrasse 50a, 3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland. Electronic address: michael.taborsky@iee.unibe.ch.
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Taborsky
authors: Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
authors: Hans A
authors: HA
authors: Hofmann
authors: Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA.
authors: Annaliese K
authors: AK
authors: Beery
authors: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA.
authors: Daniel T
authors: DT
authors: Blumstein
authors: Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA.
authors: Loren D
authors: LD
authors: Hayes
authors: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-3160, USA.
authors: Eileen A
authors: EA
authors: Lacey
authors: Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405, USA.
authors: Emília P
authors: EP
authors: Martins
authors: Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
authors: Steven M
authors: SM
authors: Phelps
authors: Department of Biology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA.
authors: Nancy G
authors: NG
authors: Solomon
authors: Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
authors: Dustin R
authors: DR
authors: Rubenstein
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D014714:Vertebrates
keywords: ecology; evolution; integration; model species; neural and endocrine mechanisms; sociality