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Behav Ecol Sociobiol. 2016 Nov;70(11):1941-1947. doi: 10.1007/s00265-016-2200-5. Epub 2016 Sep 09.

Adult bacterial exposure increases behavioral variation and drives higher repeatability in field crickets.

Behavioral ecology and sociobiology

Nicholas DiRienzo, Petri T Niemelä, Ann V Hedrick, Raine Kortet

Affiliations

  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, PO Box 210088, Tucson, AZ, USA 85721.
  2. Department of Neurobiology Physiology and Behavior, University of California - Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA.
  3. Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
  4. Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
  5. Department of Biology, Biological & Geological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond St N, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada.

PMID: 28584393 PMCID: PMC5456298 DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2200-5

Abstract

Among-individual differences in behavior are now a widely studied research-focus within the field of behavioral ecology. Furthermore, elements of an animal's internal state, such as energy or fat reserves, and infection status can have large impacts on behaviors. Despite this, we still know little regarding how state may affect behavioral variation. Recent exposure to pathogens may have a particularly large impact on behavioral expression given that it likely activates costly immune pathways, potentially forcing organism to make behavioral tradeoffs. In this study we investigate how recent exposure to a common bacterial pathogen,

Keywords: Animal personality; Gryllus; boldness; field cricket; immune function; repeatability

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