Heritability and genetic correlations of personality, life history and morphology in the grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus).

ABSTRACT: The recent interest in animal personality has sparked a number of studies on the heritability of personality traits. Yet, how the sources variance these traits can be decomposed remains unclear. Moreover, whether genetic correlations with life-history traits, personality traits and other phenotypic traits exist as predicted by the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis remains poorly understood. Our aim was to compare the heritability of personality, life-history and morphological traits and their potential genetic correlations in a small primate (Microcebus murinus). We performed an animal model analysis on six traits measured in a large sample of captive mouse lemurs (N = 486). We chose two personality traits, two life-history traits and two morphological traits to (i) estimate t

SUBMITTER: Zablocki-Thomas PB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6837229 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature