Personality traits differentially affect components of reproductive success in a Neotropical poison frog.

Peignier, Mélissa; Araya-Ajoy, Yimen G; Ringler, Max; Ringler, Eva (2023). Personality traits differentially affect components of reproductive success in a Neotropical poison frog. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological sciences, 290(2007), p. 20231551. The Royal Society 10.1098/rspb.2023.1551

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Individual reproductive success has several components, including the acquisition of mating partners, offspring production, and offspring survival until adulthood. While the effects of certain personality traits-such as boldness or aggressiveness-on single components of reproductive success are well studied, we know little about the composite and multifaceted effects behavioural traits can have on all the aspects of reproductive success. Behavioural traits positively linked to one component of reproductive success might not be beneficial for other components, and these effects may differ between sexes. We investigated the influence of boldness, aggressiveness, and exploration on the number of mating partners, mating events, and offspring surviving until adulthood in males and females of the Neotropical poison frog Allobates femoralis. Behavioural traits had different-even opposite-effects on distinct components of reproductive success in both males and females. For example, males who displayed high levels of aggressiveness and exploration (or low levels of aggressiveness and exploration) managed to attract high number of mating partners, while males with low levels of boldness, low levels of aggressiveness, and high levels of exploration had the most offspring surviving until adulthood. Our results therefore suggest correlational selection favouring particular combinations of behavioural traits.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE)
08 Faculty of Science > Department of Biology > Institute of Ecology and Evolution (IEE) > Behavioural Ecology

UniBE Contributor:

Peignier, Mélissa Carole Noëlle, Ringler, Max, Ringler, Eva

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
500 Science > 590 Animals (Zoology)
000 Computer science, knowledge & systems

ISSN:

1471-2954

Publisher:

The Royal Society

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

21 Sep 2023 08:43

Last Modified:

29 Oct 2023 02:23

Publisher DOI:

10.1098/rspb.2023.1551

PubMed ID:

37727087

Uncontrolled Keywords:

aggressiveness boldness exploration mating success offspring production selection gradients

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/186423

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/186423

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