Personality in the cockroach Diploptera punctata: Evidence for stability across developmental stages despite age effects on boldness.

ABSTRACT: Despite a recent surge in the popularity of animal personality studies and their wide-ranging associations with various aspects of behavioural ecology, our understanding of the development of personality over ontogeny remains poorly understood. Stability over time is a central tenet of personality; ecological pressures experienced by an individual at different life stages may, however, vary considerably, which may have a significant effect on behavioural traits. Invertebrates often go through numerous discrete developmental stages and therefore provide a useful model for such research. Here we test for both differential consistency and age effects upon behavioural traits in the gregarious cockroach Diploptera punctata by testing the same behavioural traits in both juveniles and adults. In

SUBMITTER: Stanley CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5425029 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature