41. Materials and methods are available as supplementary materials on Science Online. 42. One of the features of our approach is its ability to distinguish between antibodies targeting overlapping epitopes in a substantially different ways: There is a significant difference in the correlation coefficients for antibodies targeting a similar epitope versus the correlation coefficients for antibodies targeting different epitopes on the same site of vulnerability. Similarly, there is a significant difference for similar epitopes versus different sites of vulnerability; however, there is no significant difference for different epitopes on the same site of vulnerability versus different sites of vulnerability (fig. S1). 43. R. M. Cardoso et al., Immunity 22, 163 (2005). 44. Residue numbering throughout the paper is relative to strain HXB2, unless stated otherwise.
Abstract-We previously reported that inbred, genetically identical mice living in one enriched environment develop individual behavioral trajectories, indicating increasingly different levels of spatial exploratory behavior as quantified by roaming entropy. Cumulative roaming entropy (cRE) correlated positively with adult hippocampal neurogenesis, a type of plasticity involved in the flexible integration of new information into existing contexts (Freund et al., 2013). The study on which we report here was done in parallel to that first experiment, but here we acquired detailed observational data on the behavior of individual mice. Roaming entropy (RE) was again assessed in real-time with an antenna-based system over the entire experimental period of 3 months. Compared to the least active mice in the enclosure (low number of antenna contacts), the most active animals showed tendencies of increased socially interactive behavior in the final observation block whereas least active mice displayed more self-related behavior (non-social local exploration and play). When looking at roaming behavior, we discovered that RE correlated negatively with latent factors representing social exploratory and non-social exploratory and play behavior. Adult neurogenesis could not be studied in the present cohort but we do know that under identical conditions, cumulative RE correlated positively with adult hippocampal neurogenesis. We can thus hypothesize that the mice with more exploratory experience in terms of areal coverage (as quantified by RE) and related greater levels of adult hippocampal plasticity, might also be the ones that were less involved in interactions within the group and, hence, more individualistic. While this remains to be confirmed experimentally, the present data suggest that the described mechanism of individualization, which has previously been shown to be hippocampus-dependent, has a social component.
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