Risk taking behaviour predicts consistent and heritable coping styles in zebrafish.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coping styles are individually coherent sets of behavioural and physiological responses to stress. Coping styles are thought to remain consistent across context and time, and display a certain level of heritability. Here, we examined whether risk taking is a predictor for consistency and heritability of stress coping styles in both larval and adult zebrafish (Danio rerio).

Results

A group emergence test where fish emerge from a familiar housing compartment into a potentially dangerous novel environment, established the level of risk taking of F0 generation adult zebrafish. The degree of risk taking appeared to be consistent over time and context. Then, the F0 risk taking degree was further correlated with various behavioural parameters related to stress coping of

SUBMITTER: Koets L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11924662 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature