Volume 30, No 7, Jul 2020

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 30 Issue 7, July 2020: 560-561

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Social dominance hierarchy: toward a genetic and evolutionary understanding

Bruce T. Lahn^*

Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Correspondence: Bruce T. Lahn(blahn@bsd.uchicago.edu)

In social animals, the formation of dominance hierarchy is essential for maintaining the stability and efficacy of social groups. A study by Wang and colleagues employ a combination of comparative genomic and functional approaches to shed new light on both the genetic mechanisms and the evolutionary histories of dominance behavior.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-020-0347-0

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