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Categorie: 
Stages
Functie: 
Student (University)
Department: 
Animal Ecology
Contact: 
Kees van Oers
Sluitingsdatum: 
maandag 31 december 2018

Ecogenomics and personality in great tits.

Personality traits, are just like other behavioural traits plastic, but also have a clear heritable basis. Although we know that there are clear indications of some genes being involved in the pathways explaining personality variation, we can only explain a small amount of the genetic variation to date. In this project we have several datasets to dive deeper in the genomic background of these behavioural traits.

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Several genetic datasets (sanger sequences, SNP-chip data, DNA methylation data, whole-methylome data)

Research question: 
Is there selection on genotypes in a natural population?
What kind of genes are involved in behavioural variation?

Do you have a better question?

Field work not needed, but experiments in the field discussable.

Interested or other ideas?
Contact Kees van Oers, e-mail: k.vanoers@nioo.knaw.nl