Paternal personality and social status influence offspring activity in zebrafish.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence for the transmission of non-genetic information from father to offspring is rapidly accumulating. While the impact of chemical and physical factors such as toxins or diet on the fitness of the parents and their offspring have been studied extensively, the importance of behavioural and social circumstances has only recently been recognised. Behavioural traits such as personality characteristics can be relatively stable, and partly comprise a genetic component but we know little about the non-genetic transmission of plastic behavioural traits from parents to offspring. We investigated the relative effect of personality and of social dominance as indicators at the opposite ends of the plasticity range on offspring behaviour in the zebrafish (Danio rerio). We assess

SUBMITTER: Zajitschek S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5496241 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature