Search Results - "van Oers, K."

A high‐density SNP chip for genotyping great tit (Parus major) populations and its application to studying the genetic architecture of exploration behaviour by Kim, J.‐M., Santure, A. W., Barton, H. J., Quinn, J. L., Cole, E. F., Visser, M. E., Sheldon, B. C., Groenen, M. A. M., van Oers, K., Slate, J.

“…High‐density SNP microarrays (“SNP chips”) are a rapid, accurate and efficient method for genotyping several hundred thousand polymorphisms in large numbers of…”
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Replicated high-density genetic maps of two great tit populations reveal fine-scale genomic departures from sex-equal recombination rates by van Oers, K, Santure, A W, De Cauwer, I, van Bers, N E M, Crooijmans, R P M A, Sheldon, B C, Visser, M E, Slate, J, Groenen, M A M

“…Linking variation in quantitative traits to variation in the genome is an important, but challenging task in the study of life-history evolution. Linkage maps…”
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Additive and nonadditive genetic variation in avian personality traits by van Oers, K, Drent, P J, de Jong, G, van Noordwijk, A J

“…Individuals of all vertebrate species differ consistently in their reactions to mildly stressful challenges. These typical reactions, described as…”
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Personality differences explain leadership in barnacle geese by Kurvers, Ralf H.J.M., Eijkelenkamp, Babette, van Oers, Kees, van Lith, Bart, van Wieren, Sipke E., Ydenberg, Ronald C., Prins, Herbert H.T.

“…Personality in animal behaviour describes the observation that behavioural differences between individuals are consistent over time and context. Studies of…”
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Personality affects learning performance in difficult tasks in a sex-dependent way by Titulaer, Mieke, van Oers, Kees, Naguib, Marc

“…Animals constantly need to cope with changes in their environment. Coping with changes in cues that are associated with the location and abundance of food is…”
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Dose-dependent responses of avian daily rhythms to artificial light at night by de Jong, Maaike, Jeninga, Lizanne, Ouyang, Jenny Q, van Oers, Kees, Spoelstra, Kamiel, Visser, Marcel E

“…Abstract Recent studies have shown that animals are affected by night-time light exposure. Light is a continuous variable, but our knowledge on how individuals…”
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Social networking in territorial great tits: slow explorers have the least central social network positions by Snijders, Lysanne, van Rooij, Erica P., Burt, John M., Hinde, Camilla A., van Oers, Kees, Naguib, Marc

“…In various animal species individuals differ consistently in their behaviour, often referred to as personality. In several species these personality…”
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Shy and bold great tits (Parus major): body temperature and breath rate in response to handling stress by Carere, Claudio, van Oers, Kees

“…A standard handling protocol was used to test the hypothesis that boldness predicts stress responsiveness in body temperature and breath rate. Great tit (Parus…”
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Initial reactivity and magnitude of the acute stress response associated with personality in wild great tits ( Parus major ) by Baugh, Alexander T, van Oers, Kees, Naguib, Marc, Hau, Michaela

“…Highlights • Wild great tits exhibit stable individual differences in exploration behavior. • We tested for a link between this complex phenotypic trait and…”
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Personality is associated with extrapair paternity in great tits, Parus major by van Oers, Kees, Drent, Pieter Jan, Dingemanse, Niels Jeroen, Kempenaers, Bart

“…Animals differ in their behaviour comparable to how humans differ in personality: individuals consistently differ in suites of correlated traits. Relationships…”
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Gene and transposable element methylation in great tit (Parus major) brain and blood by Derks, Martijn F L, Schachtschneider, Kyle M, Madsen, Ole, Schijlen, Elio, Verhoeven, Koen J F, van Oers, Kees

“…Studies on vertebrate DNA methylomes have revealed a regulatory role of tissue specific DNA methylation in relation to gene expression. However, it is not well…”
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Worms under cover: relationships between performance in learning tasks and personality in great tits (Parus major) by Amy, Mathieu, van Oers, Kees, Naguib, Marc

“…In animals, individual differences in learning ability are common and are in part explained by genetic differences, developmental conditions and by general…”
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The effect of personality on social foraging: shy barnacle geese scrounge more by Kurvers, Ralf H. J. M., Prins, Herbert H. T., van Wieren, Sipke E., van Oers, Kees, Nolet, Bart A., Ydenberg, Ronald C.

“…Animals foraging in groups can either search for food themselves (producing) or search for the food discoveries of other individuals (scrounging). Tactic use…”
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Effects of social conditions during early development on stress response and personality traits in great tits (Parus major) by Naguib, Marc, Flörcke, Cornelia, van Oers, Kees

“…Environmental conditions during early development play a crucial role in shaping an organism's phenotype. To test how social group size affects stress response…”
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Are the specialized bird ticks, Ixodes arboricola and I. frontalis, competent vectors for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato? by Heylen, Dieter, Sprong, Hein, Oers, Kees, Fonville, Manoj, Leirs, Herwig, Matthysen, Erik

“…Our study tested whether two European bird‐specialized ticks, Ixodes arboricola and I. frontalis, can act as vectors in the transmission cycles of Borrelia…”
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Noise annoys: effects of noise on breeding great tits depend on personality but not on noise characteristics by Naguib, Marc, van Oers, Kees, Braakhuis, Annika, Griffioen, Maaike, de Goede, Piet, Waas, Joseph R.

“…Anthropogenic noise can have serious implications for animals, especially when they communicate acoustically. Yet, the impacts of noise may depend not only on…”
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Personality predicts the use of social information by Kurvers, Ralf H.J.M, van Oers, Kees, Nolet, Bart A, Jonker, Rudy M, van Wieren, Sipke E, Prins, Herbert H.T, Ydenberg, Ron C

“…Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 829-837 The use of social information is known to affect various important aspects of an individual's ecology, such as foraging,…”
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Context dependence of personalities: risk-taking behavior in a social and a nonsocial situation by van Oers, Kees, Klunder, Margreet, Drent, Piet J.

“…Individuals of many species differ consistently in their behavioral reaction to mild novel challenges. Suites of these behaviors are referred to as behavioral…”
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Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild by Dingemanse, Niels J, Both, Christiaan, Drent, Piet J, van Oers, Kees, van Noordwijk, Arie J

“…We investigated whether individual great tits, Parus major, vary consistently in their exploratory behaviour in a novel environment and measured the…”
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Dawn song predicts behaviour during territory conflicts in personality-typed great tits by Snijders, Lysanne, van Rooij, Erica P., Henskens, Marlijn F.A., van Oers, Kees, Naguib, Marc

“…Territorial animals settle territory disputes and discourage conspecific intrusion via close-range confrontations as well as nonconfrontational long-range…”
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