ArticleEcology and evolution2013
A quantitative trait locus analysis of personality in wild bighorn sheep.
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- Individualised niches: an integrative conceptual framework across behaviour, ecology, and evolution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Identification of Candidate Genes and Pathways Linked to the Temperament Trait in Sheep.Genes · 2024Article
- Individual behaviour, growth, survival and vulnerability to hunting in a large mammal.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Artificial selection in human-wildlife feeding interactions.The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Article
- Variations in Behavioral and Physiological Traits in Yearling Tibetan Sheep (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Determinants and long-term costs of early reproduction in males of a long-lived polygynous mammal.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- A Systematic Review of Genomic Regions and Candidate Genes Underlying Behavioral Traits in Farmed Mammals and Their Link with Human Disorders.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- On the Search for Grazing Personalities: From Individual to Collective Behaviors.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Review
- Identification of QTLs for behavioral reactivity to social separation and humans in sheep using the OvineSNP50 BeadChip.BMC genomics · 2014Article
- Repeatable and heritable behavioural variation in a wild cooperative breeder.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Personality, the presence of persistent behav105ioral differences among individuals over time or contexts, potentially has important ecological and evolutionary consequences. However, a lack of knowledge about its genetic architecture limits our ability to understand its origin, evolution, and maintenance. Here, we report on a genome-wide quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis for two personality traits, docility and boldness, in free-living female bighorn sheep from Ram Mountain, Alberta, Canada. Our variance component linkage analysis based on 238 microsatellite loci genotyped in 310 pedigreed individuals identified suggestive docility and boldness QTL on sheep chromosome 2 and 6, respectively. A lack of QTL overlap indicated that genetic covariance between traits was not modulated by pleiotropic effects at a major locus and may instead result from linkage disequilibrium or pleiotropic effects at QTL of small effects. To our knowledge, this study represents the first attempt to dissect the genetic architecture of personality in a free-living wildlife population, an important step toward understanding the link between molecular genetic variation in personality and fitness and the evolutionary processes maintaining this variation.
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