Realized heritability and repeatability of risk-taking behaviour in relation to avian personalities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1534, 2004, Pages 65-73

  Van Oers, Kees ^a,b   Drent, Piet J ^a   De Goede, Piet ^a   Van Noordwijk, Arie J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Approach avoidance; Parus major; Personality; Risk taking behaviour; Selection response; Temperament

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATION; HERITABILITY; PASSERINE; RISK;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; LABORATORY; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REARING; RISK; SONGBIRD; STARTLE REFLEX;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0346372570     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2518     Document Type: Article

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