Testing the stability of behavioural coping style across stress contexts in the Trinidadian guppy.

ABSTRACT: Within populations, individuals can vary in stress response, a multivariate phenomenon comprising neuroendocrine, physiological and behavioural traits.Verbal models of individual stress "coping style" have proposed that the behavioural component of this variation can be described as a single axis, with each individual's coping style being consistent across time and stress contexts.Focusing on this behavioural component of stress response and combining repeated measures of multiple traits with a novel multivariate modelling framework, we test for the existence of coping style variation and assess its stability across contexts in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata).Specifically, we test the following hypotheses: (1) there exists repeatable among-individual behavioural (co)vari

SUBMITTER: Houslay TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5836853 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature