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16049
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6659

Overview

Hans A. Hofmann is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work engages deeply with subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. A consistent theme in their research involves aspects of animal behavior and its regulatory mechanisms.

Key research topics explored include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, as well as Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

Frequent collaborators in Hofmann's publications include Rebecca L. Young, Alex Jordan, Kelly J. Wallace, Isaac Miller-Crews, and Jason Keagy. The scientist has contributed multiple articles to various scholarly venues where their work has been published with notable frequency in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Hormones and Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Scientific Reports.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hofmann include:

  • "Behavior-related gene regulatory networks: A new level of organization in the brain" (2020) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Brain transcriptomics of agonistic behaviour in the weakly electric fish Gymnotus omarorum, a wild teleost model of non-breeding aggression" (2020) Scientific Reports
  • "Effects of air pollution exposure on social behavior: a synthesis and call for research" (2021) Environmental Health
  • "Behavioral traits that define social dominance are the same that reduce social influence in a consensus task" (2020) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Neuro-transcriptomic signatures for mood disorder morbidity and suicide mortality" (2020) Journal of Psychiatric Research

Best Publications

  • Paternally Induced Transgenerational Environmental Reprogramming of Metabolic Gene Expression in Mammals

    Benjamin R. Carone;Lucas Fauquier;Naomi Habib;Jeremy M. Shea

  • The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish

    David Brawand;David Brawand;Catherine E. Wagner;Catherine E. Wagner;Yang I. Li;Milan Malinsky;Milan Malinsky

  • The Vertebrate mesolimbic reward system and social behavior network: A comparative synthesis

    Lauren A. O'Connell;Hans A. Hofmann

  • Evolution of a vertebrate social decision-making network

    Lauren A. O’Connell;Hans A. Hofmann

  • Environmental complexity and social organization sculpt the brain in Lake Tanganyikan cichlid fish.

    Alexander A. Pollen;Adam P. Dobberfuhl;Justin Scace;Mathias M. Igulu

  • Biologically meaningful expression profiling across species using heterologous hybridization to a cDNA microarray

    Susan C P Renn;Nadia Aubin-Horth;Hans A Hofmann

  • Fish and chips: functional genomics of social plasticity in an African cichlid fish

    Susan C. P. Renn;Nadia Aubin-Horth;Hans A. Hofmann

  • Alternative life histories shape brain gene expression profiles in males of the same population.

    Nadia Aubin-Horth;Christian R Landry;Benjamin H Letcher;Benjamin H Letcher;Hans A Hofmann

  • Sexual and social stimuli elicit rapid and contrasting genomic responses.

    Molly E Cummings;Jonah Larkins-Ford;Jonah Larkins-Ford;Christian R.L Reilly;Ryan Y Wong

  • NSF workshop report: discovering general principles of nervous system organization by comparing brain maps across species.

    Georg F. Striedter;T. Grant Belgard;Chun-Chun Chen;Fred P. Davis

  • Conserved transcriptomic profiles underpin monogamy across vertebrates.

    Rebecca L. Young;Michael H. Ferkin;Nina F. Ockendon-Powell;Veronica N. Orr

  • Measuring multiple hormones from a single water sample using enzyme immunoassays.

    Celeste E. Kidd;Michael R. Kidd;Hans A. Hofmann

  • Parallel evolution of opsin gene expression in African cichlid fishes

    Kelly E. O'Quin;Christopher M. Hofmann;Hans A. Hofmann;Karen L. Carleton

  • Distribution of nonapeptide systems in the forebrain of an African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni

    Lin S. Huffman;Lauren A. O’Connell;Carly D. Kenkel;Richard J. Kline

  • Serotonergic modulation of startle-escape plasticity in an African cichlid fish: a single-cell molecular and physiological analysis of a vital neural circuit.

    Keith W. Whitaker;Heike Neumeister;Lin S Huffman;Celeste E Kidd

  • 'Winner effect' without winning: unresolved social conflicts increase the probability of winning a subsequent contest in a cichlid fish.

    Peter D. Dijkstra;Sara M. Schaafsma;Hans A. Hofmann;Ton G.G. Groothuis

  • The melanocortin system regulates body pigmentation and social behaviour in a colour polymorphic cichlid fish

    Peter D. Dijkstra;Sean M. Maguire;Rayna M. Harris;Agosto A. Rodriguez

  • Behavior-related gene regulatory networks: A new level of organization in the brain

    Saurabh Sinha;Beryl M. Jones;Beryl M. Jones;Ian M. Traniello;Syed A. Bukhari

  • Annotation of expressed sequence tags for the East African cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni and evolutionary analyses of cichlid ORFs

    Walter Salzburger;Walter Salzburger;Susan C. P. Renn;Dirk Steinke;Dirk Steinke;Ingo Braasch;Ingo Braasch

  • Gene-expression signatures of Atlantic salmon's plastic life cycle.

    Nadia Aubin-Horth;Benjamin H. Letcher;Hans A. Hofmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon B. Eickhoff
Simon B. Eickhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Suzanne H. Alonzo
Suzanne H. Alonzo University of California, Santa Cruz
Dustin R. Rubenstein
Dustin R. Rubenstein Columbia University
Michael J. Ryan
Michael J. Ryan The University of Texas at Austin
Russell D. Fernald
Russell D. Fernald Stanford University
André A. Fenton
André A. Fenton New York University
Charles B. Nemeroff
Charles B. Nemeroff The University of Texas at Austin
Paul S. Katz
Paul S. Katz University of Massachusetts Amherst
Harold H. Zakon
Harold H. Zakon The University of Texas at Austin
Brian C. Trainor
Brian C. Trainor University of California, Davis

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