The importance of genotype-by-age interactions for the development of repeatable behavior and correlated behaviors over lifetime

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Brommer, Jon E ^a   Class, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal personality; Behavior; Behavioral syndrome; Evolutionary quantitative genetics; G matrix; Heritability; Senescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977579024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-12-S1-S2     Document Type: Review

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