According to the 2016 Annual Review of Neuroscience, “the brain has emerged as a main target of genomic imprinting, generating great interest in how this epigenetic regulation provides stable ...

In goslings, imprinting occurs during a narrow developmental window, after which their bonding and social behaviors become relatively fixed. In humans, puberty represents a similar sensitive window, ...

The smells that newborn mice are exposed to affect many social behaviors later in life, but how this happens is still a mystery. Scientists have now discovered the molecules necessary for imprinting.