Search Results - "Dochtermann, Ned A."

The contribution of additive genetic variation to personality variation: heritability of personality by Dochtermann, Ned A., Schwab, Tori, Sih, Andrew

“…Individual animals frequently exhibit repeatable differences from other members of their population, differences now commonly referred to as ‘animal…”
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Robustness of linear mixed‐effects models to violations of distributional assumptions by Schielzeth, Holger, Dingemanse, Niels J., Nakagawa, Shinichi, Westneat, David F., Allegue, Hassen, Teplitsky, Céline, Réale, Denis, Dochtermann, Ned A., Garamszegi, László Zsolt, Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G., Sutherland, Chris

“…Linear mixed‐effects models are powerful tools for analysing complex datasets with repeated or clustered observations, a common data structure in ecology and…”
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Describing posterior distributions of variance components: Problems and the use of null distributions to aid interpretation by Pick, Joel L., Kasper, Claudia, Allegue, Hassen, Dingemanse, Niels J., Dochtermann, Ned A., Laskowski, Kate L., Lima, Marcos R., Schielzeth, Holger, Westneat, David F., Wright, Jonathan, Araya‐Ajoy, Yimen G.

“…Abstract Assessing the biological relevance of variance components estimated using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)‐based mixed‐effects models is not…”
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Behavioural syndromes in Merriam's kangaroo rats (Dipodomys merriami): a test of competing hypotheses by Dochtermann, Ned A, Jenkins, Stephen H

“…), we assessed the explanatory power and generality of hypothesized syndrome structures derived from the literature and the natural history of the species…”
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The role of plasticity, trade-offs, and feedbacks in shaping behavioral correlations by Dochtermann, Ned A

“…Abstract How behaviors vary among individuals and covary with other behaviors has been a major topic of interest over the last two decades, particularly in…”
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Quantifying individual variation in behaviour: mixed‐effect modelling approaches by Dingemanse, Niels J, Dochtermann, Ned A, Pol, Martijn

“…Growing interest in proximate and ultimate causes and consequences of between‐ and within‐individual variation in labile components of the phenotype – such as…”
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TESTING CHEVERUD'S CONJECTURE FOR BEHAVIORAL CORRELATIONS AND BEHAVIORAL SYNDROMES by Dochtermann, Ned A.

“…Recent research regarding correlations among behaviors—under the labels of behavioral syndromes and animal personalities—has typically assumed that phenotypic…”
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Aggressive females become aggressive males in a sex-changing reef fish by Sprenger, Dennis, Dingemanse, Niels J., Dochtermann, Ned A., Theobald, Jennifer, Walker, Stefan P. W.

“…Many animal populations display consistent individual differences in suites of correlated behaviours. While these so called ‘animal personalities’ can…”
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Speciation along a shared evolutionary trajectory by Dochtermann, Ned A., Matocq, Marjorie D.

“…Groups of organisms-whether multiple species or populations of a single species-can differ in several non-exclusive ways. For example, groups may have diverged…”
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The Heritability of Behavior: A Meta-analysis by Dochtermann, Ned A, Schwab, Tori, Anderson Berdal, Monica, Dalos, Jeremy, Royauté, Raphaël

“…The contribution of genetic variation to phenotypes is a central factor in whether and how populations respond to selection. The most common approach to…”
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Paceless life? A meta-analysis of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis by Royauté, Raphaël, Berdal, Monica Anderson, Garrison, Courtney R., Dochtermann, Ned A.

“…The pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis predicts that individual differences in behavior should integrate with morphological, physiological, and life-history…”
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Behavioural syndromes shape evolutionary trajectories via conserved genetic architecture by Royauté, Raphaël, Hedrick, Ann, Dochtermann, Ned A

“…Behaviours are often correlated within broader syndromes, creating the potential for evolution in one behaviour to drive evolutionary changes in other…”
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Behavioral syndromes as evolutionary constraints by Dochtermann, Ned A., Dingemanse, Niels J.

“…Behaviors are commonly correlated between individuals in so-called "behavioral syndromes." Between-individual correlations of phenotypic traits can change the…”
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Comparing ecological and evolutionary variability within datasets by Royauté, Raphaël, Dochtermann, Ned A.

“…Many key questions in evolutionary ecology require the use of variance ratios such as heritability, repeatability, and individual resource specialization…”
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Defining behavioural syndromes and the role of 'syndrome deviation' in understanding their evolution by Dingemanse, Niels J., Dochtermann, Ned A., Nakagawa, Shinichi

“…This commentary highlights multivariate tools that have been used by evolutionary biologists in the study of syndromes and their evolution and discusses the…”
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When the mean no longer matters: developmental diet affects behavioral variation but not population averages in the house cricket ( Acheta domesticus ) by Royauté, Raphaël, Dochtermann, Ned A.

“…Despite recent progress in elucidating the genetic basis for behavioral variation, the effects of the developmental environment on the maintenance and…”
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The effects of exposure to predators on personality and plasticity by Bucklaew, Amy, Dochtermann, Ned A., Goymann, Wolfgang

“…Past experiences are known to affect average behavior but effects on animal personality and plasticity are less well studied. To determine whether experience…”
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Drift on holey landscapes as a dominant evolutionary process by Dochtermann, Ned A, Klock, Brady, Roff, Derek A, Royauté, Raphaël

“…An organism's phenotype has been shaped by evolution but the specific processes have to be indirectly inferred for most species. For example, correlations…”
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Non‐consumptive effects of predation: does perceived risk strengthen the genetic integration of behaviour and morphology in stickleback? by Dingemanse, Niels J., Barber, Iain, Dochtermann, Ned A., Gaillard, Jean‐Michel

“…Predators can shape genetic correlations in prey by altering prey perception of risk. We manipulated perceived risk to test whether such non‐consumptive…”
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Adaptive Alignment of Plasticity With Genetic Variation and Selection by Berdal, Monica Anderson, Dochtermann, Ned A

“…Theoretical research has outlined how selection may shape both genetic variation and the expression of phenotypic plasticity in multivariate trait space…”
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