Würz, Yvonne; Krüger, Oliver: Personality over ontogeny in zebra finches: long-term repeatable traits but unstable behavioural syndromes. In: Frontiers in Zoology. Jg.12 H. Suppl 1. 2015
Inhalt
- Investigating personality over ontogeny
- Results
- Repeatabilities (‘differential consistency’)
- Sex differences in repeatability
- Behavioural syndrome structure (‘structural consistency’)
- Generalized linear mixed effects models
- Effect of selection line origin
- Discussion
- Repeatabilities (‘differential consistency’)
- Behavioural traits differ in their repeatability
- The time interval between tests influences repeatability
- Development of repeatability across life stages
- Repeatability can differ between the sexes
- Development of behavioural syndrome structure over ontogeny
- Conclusions
- Methods
- Animals and housing conditions
- Test schedule and description of behavioural tests
- Statistical analysis
- Principal components analysis
- Generalized Linear Mixed Models for extraction of best linear unbiased predictors
- Repeatabilities (’differential consistency’)
- Behavioural syndrome structure (’structural consistency’)
- Ethics statement
- Competing interests
- Authors’ contributions
- Acknowledgements
- Declarations
- References