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ArticleHeredity2019

Evolutionary genetics of personality in the Trinidadian guppy I: maternal and additive genetic effects across ontogeny.

Stephen John White, Alastair James Wilson

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Article in Heredity, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Early-life behavior, survival, and maternal personality in a wild marsupial.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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  16. Towards a comparative approach to the structure of animal personality variation.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephen John WhiteCentre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter (Penryn Campus), Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK. s.j.white@exeter.ac.uk.
Alastair James WilsonCentre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter (Penryn Campus), Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK.
University of Exeter · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among-individual variation in behaviour is a widespread phenomenon, with several frameworks developed to explain its existence. Maternal effects, which can have significant influence over evolutionary processes, are an understudied source of behavioural variation. Maternal effects are not necessarily static, however, since their importance can change over offspring ontogeny, typically declining with age relative to additive genetic effects. Here, using a quantitative genetics approach, we test the prediction that maternal effects will influence age-specific risk-taking behaviour in Trinidadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata. Individuals were subject to a single open-field trial as juveniles and up to four repeat trials as adults, with five traits indicative of risk-taking behaviour measured in each trial. We then partitioned phenotypic variance into additive genetic (V

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Behavior, AnimalBiological EvolutionAnimalsBody WeightGenetic VariationMaternal InheritancePersonalityPhenotypePoecilia

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PMID29773896
PMCPMC6288082
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