Environmental transmission of a personality trait: Foster parent exploration behaviour predicts offspring exploration behaviour in zebra finches

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Schuett, Wiebke ^a,b   Dall, Sasha R X ^a   Wilson, Alastair J ^a   Royle, Nick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural syndrome; Behavioural transmission; Heritability; Inclusive heritability; Nongenetic inheritance; Taeniopygia guttata

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BROOD SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HATCHING; HERITABILITY; INCLUSIVE FITNESS; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SONGBIRD; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOURAL SYNDROME; BEHAVIOURAL TRANSMISSION; HERITABILITY; INCLUSIVE HERITABILITY; NON-GENETIC INHERITANCE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SONGBIRDS;

BEHAVIOURAL SYNDROME; BEHAVIOURAL TRANSMISSION; HERITABILITY; INCLUSIVE HERITABILITY; NON-GENETIC INHERITANCE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 84880830935     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0120     Document Type: Article

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