Personality variation in a clonal insect: The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 631-640

  Schuett, Wiebke ^a,e   Dall, Sasha R X ^b   Baeumer, Jana ^a   Kloesener, Michaela H ^a   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^c   Beinlich, Felix ^a   Eggers, Till ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d BASF SE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; Behavioral consistency; Behavioral variation; Clone; Coccinella septempunctata; Environment; Pea aphid; Personality; Predation; Risk taking; Temperament

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APHID; ARTICLE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESCAPE REACTION; INDIVIDUALITY; PERSONALITY;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 80051900814     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20538     Document Type: Article

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