ReviewFrontiers in zoology2015
Effect of diet on the structure of animal personality.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Personality development in non-domesticated house mice: evidence for a nutrition-dependent sensitive period early in life.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Parental and personal experience drive personality formation and individual niche diversification in group-living mites.iScience · 2025Article
- To stay or to go: resource diversity alters the dispersal behavior of sympatric cryptic marine nematodes.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Age-Related Plasticity Integration in Male CicadasEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Early-life diet composition affects phenotypic variation of correlated animal personality traits.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Male harm offsets the demographic benefits of good genes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The effects of an obesogenic diet on behavior and cognition in zebrafish (Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Sex-Specific Effect of the Dietary Protein to Carbohydrate Ratio on Personality in the Dubia Cockroach.Insects · 2022Article
- 'Hangry'Animal behaviour · 2021Article
- Long-Term Dietary Restriction Leads to Development of Alternative Fighting Strategies.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Modelling the evolution of cognitive styles.BMC evolutionary biology · 2019Article
- Experimental evolution of personality traits: open-field exploration in bank voles from a multidirectional selection experiment.Current zoology · 2019Article
- You are what you eat: diet shapes body composition, personality and behavioural stability.BMC evolutionary biology · 2017Article
- Individuality in nutritional preferences: a multi-level approach in field crickets.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Stable individual differences in separation calls during early development in cats and mice.Frontiers in zoology · 2015Article
- Maternal diet exerts sex-specific effects on offspring' personalities in predatory mites.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
There is increasing interest in the proximate factors that underpin individual variation in suites of correlated behaviours. In this paper, we propose that dietary macronutrient composition, an underexplored environmental factor, might play a key role. Variation in macronutrient composition can lead to among-individual differentiation in single behaviours ('personality' ) as well as among-individual covariation between behaviours ('behavioural syndromes' ). Here, we argue that the nutritional balance during any life stage might affect the development of syndrome structure and the expression of genes with pleiotropic effects that influence development of multiple behaviours, hence genetic syndrome structure. We further suggest that males and females should typically differ in diet-dependent genetic syndrome structure despite a shared genetic basis. We detail how such diet-dependent multivariate gene-environment interactions can have major repercussions for the evolution of behavioural syndromes.
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