Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population level

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1560, 2010, Pages 4051-4063

  Réale, Denis ^a   Garant, Dany ^b   Humphries, Murray M ^c   Bergeron, Patrick ^b   Careau, Vincent ^b   Montiglio, Pierre Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Immune system; Life history strategies; Metabolism; Pace of life; Personality; Trait interactions

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COEVOLUTION; HORMONE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METABOLISM;

EID: 78650619327     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0208     Document Type: Review

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