Behavioral Systems

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Behavioral Systems: The Behavioral Systems Cluster supports research on the development, function, mechanisms, and evolutionary history of behavior, with emphasis on a vertically integrated understanding of the behavioral phenotype in nature. To foster this integrative goal, the Cluster specifically encourages projects that seek to understand how combinations of neural, hormonal, physiological, and developmental mechanisms act synergistically as a system from which behavior emerges. Laboratory work or the study of animals in captivity is encouraged, to the extent that it contributes to the understanding of behavior in natural systems. Summary Award Information - In FY 2009, the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems funded 24% of submitted proposals, and the mean annual award was $160,624.Program Directors:Dan Wiegmann. Animal BehaviorJ. Steven deBelle. Animal Behavior