Behavioral Genetics

It’s almost impossible to think about animal behavior without thinking of dogs! Our canine friends are a subspecies of wolf that has been co-evolving with us for tens of thousands of years. The transition from wolf to pet has required intense natural and artificial selection for behaviors that allow dogs to live alongside humans, but behavior is not so simple.

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Dr. Jessica Hekman: Jessica P. Hekman is a scholar working on Genetics, Small Animals, Molecular Biology, Social Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, having authored 12 papers that have together received 342 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Human-Animal Interaction Studies (6 papers), Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (3 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (2 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (2 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (2 papers), Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (2 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (1 paper) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Small Animals (113 citations), Speech and Hearing (43 citations), Genetics (191 citations), Equine (11 citations) and Behavioral Neuroscience (15 citations). Jessica P. Hekman has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Russia and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Alicia Z. Karas, Nancy A. Dreschel, Claire R. Sharp, Anna V. Kukekova, Jennifer L. Johnson, Elinor K. Karlsson, Diane P. Genereux, Patrick W. Marsh, Anastasiya V. Vladimirova and Jeffrey A. Bailey. Their work appears in journals such as Animals, PLoS ONE, Genes Brain & Behavior, Bioinformatics and Biology Insights and G3 Genes Genomes Genetics.