Epigenetic effects on personality traits: Early food provisioning and sibling competition

Behaviour

Volumn 142, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1329-1355

  Carere, Claudio ^a,b   Drent, Piet J ^c   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a   Groothuis, Ton G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; Exploration; Food availability; Great tit; Ontogeny; Personality; Sibling competition

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 33745293631     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853905774539328     Document Type: Article

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