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. 2017 Mar 2;28(4):948–952. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arx023

Table 1.

Examples in the behavioural literature of questions regarding individual variation in behaviour (“personality”) and behavioural plasticity, using best linear unbiased predictors (BLUPs) in secondary analyses rather than multivariate models

Test Species Reference
Behavioural syndromes Microtus arvalis (Lantová et al. 2011)
Taeniopygia guttata (Wuerz and Krüger 2015)
Latrodectus hesperus (Montiglio and DiRienzo 2016)
Personality across life stages Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Kelley et al. 2015)
Different measures of a single personality trait Bitis arietans (Carter et al. 2012c)
Pomacentrus wardi, P. amboinensis (Beckmann and Biro 2013)
Personality and sampling bias Agama planiceps (Carter et al. 2012b)
Personality and hormones Tamias striatus (Montiglio et al. 2012)
Canis latrans (Schell et al. 2016)
Personality and physiology Cavia aperea (Guenther and Trillmich 2015)
C. aperea (Finkemeier et al. 2016)
Personality and telomere length Salmo trutta (Adriaenssens et al. 2016)
Personality and cognition C. aperea (Guenther et al. 2014)
C. aperea, C. porcellus (Brust and Guenther 2015)
Personality and social network attributes Anguilla anguilla (Geffroy et al. 2014)
Marmota flaviventris (Fuong et al. 2015)
Personality and local density T. hudsonicus (Shonfield et al. 2012)
Personality and social niche specialisation Suricata suricatta (Carter et al. 2014)
Personality and group-size preference Perca fluviatilis (Hellström et al. 2016)
Personality and predation risk P. fluviatilis (Magnhagen et al. 2012)
(Heynen et al. 2016)
Personality and mating behaviour Aquarius remigis (Wey et al. 2014; Wey et al. 2015)
Gerris buenoi (Pineaux and Turgeon 2017)
Personality and breeding performance Circus pygargus (Arroyo et al. 2017)
Personality and survival T. striatus (Bergeron et al. 2013)
Personality and fitness-related traits S. trutta (Adriaenssens and Johnsson 2011)
Personality and individual variation in behavioural plasticity A. planiceps (Carter et al. 2012a)
Microcebus murinus (Dammhahn and Almeling 2012)
T. guttata (Gibelli and Dubois 2016)
Personality, behavioural plasticity, and reproductive success Tachycineta bicolor (Betini and Norris 2012)
Personality, behavioural plasticity, and mating A. remigis (Montiglio et al. 2016a; Montiglio et al. 2016b)
Personality, behavioural plasticity, and fitness Tenagogerris euphrosyne (Han and Brooks 2014)

All were published after the publication of Hadfield et al (2010).