期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2019
卷号：116
期号：36
页码：17629-17630
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1911022116
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：To explore whether parallel transcriptomic patterns underlie behavioral similarities across vertebrates, we compared the brain transcriptomes of 5 species pairs representing independent transitions to monogamy. We found similar expression patterns associated with monogamy across deep phylogenetic distances (1). In their letter (2), Jiang and Zhang reanalyze our publicly available data. When comparing “expression level differences of orthologous genes,” they find “divergences followed the species phylogeny. Further, they find 15 orthologous gene groups (OGGs; in contrast to our 42) with concordant expression changes, concluding that “expression levels of a very small number of genes” are associated with monogamy. We thank Jiang and Zhang (2) for engaging in discourse … [↵][1]1To whom correspondence may be addressed.
