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Rittinger MA, Rodríguez RL, Escalante I. Heuristic test reveals little effect of learning and maturation on early prey capture experiences in a web-building spider. Sci Rep 2024; 14:11736. [PMID: 38778018 PMCID: PMC11111793 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61252-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2023] [Accepted: 05/03/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024] Open
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Behaviors can vary throughout an animal's life and this variation can often be explained by changes associated with learning and/or maturing. Currently, there is little consensus regarding how these processes interact to affect behaviors. Here we proposed a heuristic approach to disentangle the effects of learning and maturation on behavior and applied it to the predatory behaviors of Physocyclus globosus spiderlings. We varied the degree of prey difficulty and familiarity spiderlings received along the first instar and across the molt to the second instar and quantified the time spiderlings spent wrapping prey, as a proxy for prey capture efficiency. We found no overall evidence for learning or maturation. Changes in efficiency were mainly due to the switch from difficult to easy prey, or vice versa. However, there was one treatment where spiderlings improved in efficiency before and after the molt, without a switch in prey type. This provides some indication that difficult prey may offer more opportunity for learning or maturation to impact behavior. Although we found little effect of learning or maturation on prey capture efficiency, we suggest that our heuristic approach is effective and could be useful in investigating these processes in other behaviors and other animals.
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- Madison A Rittinger
- Behavioral and Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
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- Behavioral and Molecular Ecology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Cuidad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, 2060, San José, Costa Rica
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Waldron BP, Ganzfried MC, Hickerson CAM, Anthony CD. Repeatability of foraging behavior following a simulated predation attempt depends on color morph, sex, and foraging metric in Red-backed salamanders ( Plethodon cinereus). ETHOL ECOL EVOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/03949370.2021.1941268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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- Brian P. Waldron
- Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd, University Heights, OH 44118, USA
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- Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd, University Heights, OH 44118, USA
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- Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd, University Heights, OH 44118, USA
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- Department of Biology, John Carroll University, 1 John Carroll Blvd, University Heights, OH 44118, USA
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Hämäläinen A, Kiljunen M, Koskela E, Koteja P, Mappes T, Rajala M, Tiainen K. Artificial selection for predatory behaviour results in dietary niche differentiation in an omnivorous mammal. Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20212510. [PMID: 35259986 PMCID: PMC8905149 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The diet of an individual is a result of the availability of dietary items and the individual's foraging skills and preferences. Behavioural differences may thus influence diet variation, but the evolvability of diet choice through behavioural evolution has not been studied. We used experimental evolution combined with a field enclosure experiment to test whether behavioural selection leads to dietary divergence. We analysed the individual dietary niche via stable isotope ratios of nitrogen (δ15N) and carbon (δ13C) in the hair of an omnivorous mammal, the bank vole, from four lines selected for predatory behaviour and four unselected control lines. Predatory voles had higher hair δ15N values than control voles, supporting our hypothesis that predatory voles would consume a higher trophic level diet (more animal versus plant foods). This difference was significant in the early but not the late summer season. The δ13C values also indicated a seasonal change in the consumed plant matter and a difference in food sources among selection lines in the early summer. These results imply that environmental factors interact with evolved behavioural tendencies to determine dietary niche heterogeneity. Behavioural selection thus has potential to contribute to the evolution of diet choice and ultimately the species' ecological niche breadth.
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- Anni Hämäläinen
- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.,Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Amodeo P, D'Aniello E, Defranoux F, Marino A, D'Angelo L, Ghiselin MT, Mollo E. The Suitability of Fishes as Models for Studying Appetitive Behavior in Vertebrates. Results Probl Cell Differ 2019; 65:423-438. [PMID: 30083930 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92486-1_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Fish have proven to be valuable models in the study of the endocrine control of appetite in response to peripheral signals of energetic and nutritional status. In parallel, a growing body of literature points to the importance of sensory experiences as factors affecting food choice in fish, with a special focus on visual and chemical signals allowing discrimination of potential foods within a 3D environment. Accordingly, waterborne compounds, such as monosaccharides or amino acids, are regarded as the main "olfactory" cues driving fish alimentary behavior. However, we recently suggested that hydrophobic molecules also allow food identification in aquatic environments and that fish actually explore a larger variety of chemosensory cues, including the olfactory/volatile compounds, when determining food palatability. In this study, we show that both homeostatic and chemosensory mechanisms involved in food intake are highly conserved in vertebrates and that the chemosensory world of fish is less different from that of terrestrial mammals than commonly thought. As a result, we support a more integrated and synthetic view of the mechanisms of chemical communication in both terrestrial and aquatic systems, which could help to ensure greater translatability of the fish models, such as the zebrafish (Danio rerio), the turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri), the goldfish (Carassius auratus), or the Japanese medaka fish (Oryzias latipes) to terrestrial vertebrates when approaching complex dynamic patterns in alimentary behavior.
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- Pietro Amodeo
- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia ed Evoluzione degli Organismi Marini, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia ed Evoluzione degli Organismi Marini, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy.,Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Produzioni Animali, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Invertebrate Zoology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli, Italy.
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Heterozygosity–behavior and heterozygosity–fitness correlations in a salamander with limited dispersal. POPUL ECOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10144-017-0604-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Swaddle JP, Francis CD, Barber JR, Cooper CB, Kyba CCM, Dominoni DM, Shannon G, Aschehoug E, Goodwin SE, Kawahara AY, Luther D, Spoelstra K, Voss M, Longcore T. A framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound. Trends Ecol Evol 2015; 30:550-60. [PMID: 26169593 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2015] [Revised: 06/11/2015] [Accepted: 06/16/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Human activities have caused a near-ubiquitous and evolutionarily-unprecedented increase in environmental sound levels and artificial night lighting. These stimuli reorganize communities by interfering with species-specific perception of time-cues, habitat features, and auditory and visual signals. Rapid evolutionary changes could occur in response to light and noise, given their magnitude, geographical extent, and degree to which they represent unprecedented environmental conditions. We present a framework for investigating anthropogenic light and noise as agents of selection, and as drivers of other evolutionary processes, to influence a range of behavioral and physiological traits such as phenological characters and sensory and signaling systems. In this context, opportunities abound for understanding contemporary and rapid evolution in response to human-caused environmental change.
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- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ and Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Potsdam, Germany
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- University of Southern California and The Urban Wildlands Group, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Jayanthi PDK, Sangeetha P, Verghese A. Study of inheritance of feeding potential in natural populations of predatory coccinellid Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant using isofemale strains. J Genet 2014; 93:113-22. [PMID: 24840828 DOI: 10.1007/s12041-014-0350-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The ability to feed on the prey is of great concern for the predatory insects, especially with regard to predatory coccinellid, Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant, which is mass reared and released into the field in large numbers to control the target pests. The variability associated with feeding potential is partly influenced by the genetic background of the insects and partly due to the environment, but the genetic basis of this trait is not yet fully understood in C. montrouzieri. The aim of this study was to identify the genetic basis of variation and heritability of this quantitative trait in natural populations of C. montrouzieri through isofemale heritability and parent-offspring regression. The regression analyses indicated that there was a significant linear relationship between progeny and their mothers for feeding potential.
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- P D Kamala Jayanthi
- Department of Entomology and Nematology, Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hessaraghatta, Bangalore 560 089, India.
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Sánchez-Hernández J. Disentangling prey-handling efficiency of larval newts through multivariate prey trait analysis. J NAT HIST 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.865090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Javier Sánchez-Hernández
- Department of Zoology and Physical Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Station of Hydrobiology “Encoro do Con”, Pontevedra, Spain
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Murray GPD, Stillman RA, Gozlan RE, Britton JR. Experimental Predictions of The Functional Response of A Freshwater Fish. Ethology 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/eth.12117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Gregory P. D. Murray
- Centre for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Change School of Applied Sciences Bournemouth University Bournemouth Dorset UK
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- Centre for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Change School of Applied Sciences Bournemouth University Bournemouth Dorset UK
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- Centre for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Change School of Applied Sciences Bournemouth University Bournemouth Dorset UK
- Unité Mixte de Recherche Biologie des Organismes et Écosystèmes Aquatiques (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 207, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 7208, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie) Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris Cedex France
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- Centre for Conservation Ecology and Environmental Change School of Applied Sciences Bournemouth University Bournemouth Dorset UK
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Clutch identity and predator-induced hatching affect behavior and development in a leaf-breeding treefrog. Oecologia 2012; 171:831-43. [PMID: 23011848 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2443-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2010] [Accepted: 08/19/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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For species with complex life cycles, transitions between life stages result in niche shifts that are often associated with evolutionary trade-offs. When conditions across life stages are unpredictable, plasticity in niche shift timing may be adaptive; however, factors associated with clutch identity (e.g., genetic or maternal) may influence the effects of such plasticity. The red-eyed treefrog (Agalychnis callidryas) is an ideal organism for investigating the effects of genetics and life stage switch point timing because embryos exhibit adaptive phenotypic plasticity in hatching time. In this study, we evaluated the effects of experimentally manipulated hatching time and clutch identity on antipredator behavior of tadpoles and on developmental traits of metamorphs, including larval period, mass, SVL, and jumping ability. We found that in the presence of dragonfly nymph predator cues at 21 days post-oviposition, tadpoles reduced both their activity level and height in the water column. Furthermore, early-hatched tadpoles were less active than late-hatched tadpoles of the same age. This difference in behavior patterns of early- and late-hatched tadpoles may represent an adaptive response due to a longer period of susceptibility to odonate predators for early-hatched tadpoles, or it may be a carry-over effect mediated by early exposure to an environmental stressor (i.e., induction of early hatching). We also found that hatching time affected both behavioral traits and developmental traits, but its effect on developmental traits varied significantly among clutches. This study shows that a single early-life event may influence a suite of factors during subsequent life stages and that some of these effects appear to be dependent on clutch identity. This interaction may represent an evolutionary response to a complex life cycle and unpredictable environments, regardless of whether the clutch differences are due to additive genetic variance or maternal effects.
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Moleón M, Sebastián-González E, Sánchez-Zapata JA, Real J, Pires MM, Gil-Sánchez JM, Bautista J, Palma L, Bayle P, Guimarães PR, Beja P. Changes in intrapopulation resource use patterns of an endangered raptor in response to a disease-mediated crash in prey abundance. J Anim Ecol 2012; 81:1154-1160. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.02006.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Rymer T, Pillay N. Transmission of parental care behavior in African striped mice, Rhabdomys Pumilio. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 315:631-8. [DOI: 10.1002/jez.712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2011] [Revised: 08/16/2011] [Accepted: 08/29/2011] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Many generalist populations are composed of specialised individuals, whose niches are small subsets of the population niche. This 'individual specialisation' is a widespread phenomenon in natural populations, but until recently few studies quantified the magnitude of individual specialisation and how this magnitude varies among populations or contexts. Such quantitative approaches are necessary for us to understand how ecological interactions influence the amount of among-individual variation, and how the amount of variation might affect ecological dynamics. Herein, we review recent studies of individual specialisation, emphasising the novel insights arising from quantitative measures of diet variation. Experimental and comparative studies have confirmed long-standing theoretical expectations that the magnitude of among-individual diet variation depends on the level of intra and interspecific competition, ecological opportunity and predation. In contrast, there is little empirical information as to how individual specialisation affects community dynamics. We discuss some emerging methodological issues as guidelines for researchers studying individual specialisation, and make specific recommendations regarding avenues for future research.
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- Márcio S Araújo
- Marine Sciences Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33181, USA.
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Boogert NJ, Bui C, Howarth K, Giraldeau LA, Lefebvre L. Does foraging behaviour affect female mate preferences and pair formation in captive zebra finches? PLoS One 2010; 5:e14340. [PMID: 21179514 PMCID: PMC3002270 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2010] [Accepted: 11/17/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Successful foraging is essential for survival and reproductive success. In many bird species, foraging is a learned behaviour. To cope with environmental change and survive periods in which regular foods are scarce, the ability to solve novel foraging problems by learning new foraging techniques can be crucial. Although females have been shown to prefer more efficient foragers, the effect of males' foraging techniques on female mate choice has never been studied. We tested whether females would prefer males showing the same learned foraging technique as they had been exposed to as juveniles, or whether females would prefer males that showed a complementary foraging technique. Methodology/Principal Findings We first trained juvenile male and female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) to obtain a significant proportion of their food by one of two foraging techniques. We then tested whether females showed a preference for males with the same or the alternative technique. We found that neither a male's foraging technique nor his foraging performance affected the time females spent in his proximity in the mate-choice apparatus. We then released flocks of these finches into an aviary to investigate whether assortative pairing would be facilitated by birds taught the same technique exploiting the same habitat. Zebra finches trained as juveniles in a specific foraging technique maintained their foraging specialisation in the aviary as adults. However, pair formation and nest location were random with regard to foraging technique. Conclusions/Significance Our findings show that zebra finches can be successfully trained to be foraging specialists. However, the robust negative results of the conditions tested here suggest that learned foraging specializations do not affect mate choice or pair formation in our experimental context.
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Greenlees MJ, Phillips BL, Shine R. Adjusting to a toxic invader: native Australian frogs learn not to prey on cane toads. Behav Ecol 2010. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Individualistic herds: Individual variation in herbivore foraging behavior and application to rangeland management. Appl Anim Behav Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2009.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Bischof R, Zedrosser A. The educated prey: consequences for exploitation and control. Behav Ecol 2009. [DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Deitloff J, Church JO, Adams DC, Jaeger RG. Interspecific Agonistic Behaviors in a Salamander Community: Implications for Alpha Selection. HERPETOLOGICA 2009. [DOI: 10.1655/08-069r.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Vanderhoff EN, Eason PK. Disparity between Adult and Juvenile American Robins Turdus migratorius Foraging for Ground Invertebrates and Cherry Fruits. Ethology 2007. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01434.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Bolnick DI, Svanbäck R, Araújo MS, Persson L. Comparative support for the niche variation hypothesis that more generalized populations also are more heterogeneous. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:10075-9. [PMID: 17537912 PMCID: PMC1891261 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0703743104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 265] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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There is extensive evidence that some species of ecological generalists, which use a wide diversity of resources, are in fact heterogeneous collections of relatively specialized individuals. This within-population variation, or "individual specialization," is a key requirement for frequency-dependent interactions that may drive a variety of types of evolutionary diversification and may influence the population dynamics and ecological interactions of species. Consequently, it is important to understand when individual specialization is likely to be strong or weak. The niche variation hypothesis (NVH) suggests that populations tend to become more generalized when they are released from interspecific competition. This niche expansion was proposed to arise via increased variation among individuals rather than increased individual niche breadth. Consequently, we expect ecological generalists to exhibit stronger individual specialization, but this correlation has been repeatedly rejected by empiricists. The drawback with previous empirical tests of the NVH is that they use morphological variation as a proxy for niche variation, ignoring the role of behavior and complex phenotype-function relationships. Here, we used diet data to directly estimate niche variation among individuals. Consistent with the NVH, we show that more generalized populations also exhibit more niche variation. This trend is quite general, appearing in all five case studies examined: three-spine stickleback, Eurasian perch, Anolis lizards, intertidal gastropods, and a community of neotropical frogs. Our results suggest that generalist populations may tend to be more ecologically variable. Whether this translates into greater genetic variation, evolvability, or ecological stability remains to be determined.
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- Daniel I Bolnick
- Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
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Foraging ability in the scorpionfly Panorpa vulgaris: individual differences and heritability. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0277-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Sinn DL, Apiolaza LA, Moltschaniwskyj NA. Heritability and fitness-related consequences of squid personality traits. J Evol Biol 2006; 19:1437-47. [PMID: 16910975 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01136.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Dumpling squid, Euprymna tasmanica, show consistent individual differences in behaviour that can be classified according to indices reflecting shy-bold, activity and reactivity responses. Using crosses of wild-caught single males to multiple females with known behavioural phenotypes, this study estimated patterns of additive genetic and residual variance in these behavioural traits from offspring of squid in two contexts, a threat (antipredator) and feeding (foraging) test. Genetic contributions to behavioural expression were dependent on test context. Behaviours in antipredator contexts had significant heritabilities (h(2) = 0.2-0.8) while behaviours from foraging contexts had lesser additive genetic and greater residual components (h(2) = 0.05-0.08). Personality trait variation in females was not related to her fecundity. Female boldness in foraging situations, which co-varied with body size, explained small but significant variation ( approximately 21%) in brood hatching success, while successful fertilization was determined by positive assortion of mate pairs according to their shy-bold phenotype. These results are discussed in terms of the ecological and evolutionary significance of animal "personality" traits in wild populations of animals.
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- D L Sinn
- School of Aquaculture, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS 7001, Australia.
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