Are some individuals generally more behaviorally plastic than others? An experiment with sailfin mollies.

ABSTRACT: Individuals within the same population generally differ among each other not only in their behavioral traits but also in their level of behavioral plasticity (i.e., in their propensity to modify their behavior in response to changing conditions). If the proximate factors underlying individual differences in behavioral plasticity were the same for any measure of plasticity, as commonly assumed, one would expect plasticity to be repeatable across behaviors and contexts. However, this assumption remains largely untested. Here, we conducted an experiment with sailfin mollies (Poecilia latipinna) whose behavioral plasticity was estimated both as the change in their personality traits or mating behavior across a social gradient and using their performance on a reversal-learning task. We f

SUBMITTER: Gibelli J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6086093 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature