Contribution of genetics to the study of animal personalities: a review of case studies

By K. Oers, G. Jong, A. J. Noordwijk, B. Kempenaers, P. Drent. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Small Animals

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Development of shy/bold behaviour in squid: context-specific phenotypes associated with developmental plasticity (2008, background): “crossing reaction norms) are given in van Oers et al. (2005) .”
The development of animal personality: relevance, concepts and perspectives (2010, unknown): “Artiﬁcial selection for lines with extremely high or low values of personality traits has also been used to estimate the effects of genes on those traits (e.g. Drent, van Oers & van Noordwijk, 2003; van Oers et al., 2005 a , see also below).”
The development of collective personality: the ontogenetic drivers of behavioral variation across groups (2014, background): “Personality traits can vary in heritability (e.g., h 2 : 0.01–0.014, stickleback aggression; 0.66, chimpanzee dominance, Weiss et al., 2000; reviewed in van Oers et al., 2005).”
Behavioural syndromes and trappability in free-living collared flycatchers, Ficedula albicollis (2009, background): “…artificial selection experiments in combination with field studies separated different variance components for behavioural types, and showed that these are significantly heritable and genetically correlated (Dingemanse et al. 2002; Drent et al. 2003; Carere et al. 2005; van Oers et al. 2005).”
Shoal composition determines foraging success in the guppy (2009, methodology): “This has been referred in many ways including behavioral type (BT) (Sih and Watters 2005), personality (vanOers et al. 2005), and coping style (Koolhaas et al.”
Personality differences explain leadership in barnacle geese (2009, background): “Thus, although personality has a genetic (van Oers et al. 2005a) and a rigid underlying physiological mechanism (Koolhaas et al. 1999), and traits are genetically correlated (van Oers et al. 2004), the expression of the behaviour in a social context depends strongly on the behaviour of other…”
Insights for Behavioral Ecology from Behavioral Syndromes. (2008, background): “One possibility is female choice for good genes, where the male’s behavioral type [which is typically heritable (Penke et al., 2007; Reale et al., 2007; van Oers et al., 2005)] provides an ecological or social mechanism for why some male genotypes might enhance offspring fitness.”
Natural selection and animal personality (2005, background): “Relatively high levels of both additive and nonadditive genetic variance in early exploratory behaviour of laboratory-bred great tits (van Oers et al., 2004c) suggested a history of fluctuating selection pressures in this population (see van Oers et al., 2005b ).”
Interaction between animal personality and animal cognition (2011, background): “…John, 1999; Koolhaas et al., 1999; Dall et al., 2004; Sih et al., 2004; Carere and Eens, 2005; Dingemanse and Rèale, 2005; Huntingford and Adams, 2005; Sgoifo et al., 2005; van Oers et al., 2005; Rèale et al., 2007; Stamps, 2007; Wolf et al., 2007; Réale et al., 2010; Stamps and Groothuis 2010).”
On the Evolutionary Origin of Prospect Theory Preferences (2008, background): “Empirically, research has demonstrated that animal personality is both heritable (van Oers et al. 2005) and linked to reproductive fitness (Dingemanse and Reale, 2005), and yet remains obviously variable.”
Horse personality: Variation between breeds (2008, background): “In addition, it is now well accepted that behaviour and personality are affected to some extent by genes (Bouchard and Loehlin, 2001; Reif and Lesch, 2003; Mormède, 2005; van Oers et al., 2005).”
Slow explorers take less risk: a problem of sampling bias in ecological studies (2013, background): “another aspect of exploration as suggested by Réale et al. (2007) sensu stricto because it is a measure taken during a potentially risky situation, where individuals differ in their assessment of a threat.”
Covariation between personalities and individual differences in coping with stress: Converging evidence and hypotheses (2010, background): “Heritability estimates from breeding experiments under standardised conditions, which can control for environmental effects, show that personality traits often have a substantial genetic basis (reviewed by van Oers et al., 2005).”
Boldness–exploration behavioral syndrome: interfamily variability and repeatability of personality traits in the young of the convict cichlid (Amatitlania siquia) (2015, background): “…in fishes (e.g., Fraser et al. 2001; Wilson and Godin 2009; Cote, Fogarty, et al. 2010; Wisenden et al. 2011) and in birds (e.g., Verbeek et al. 1994; van Oers et al. 2004), and both behaviors are heritable (reviewed by van Oers et al. 2005) and implicated in dispersal (Cote, Clobert, et al. 2010).”