The evolutionary potential of traits is governed by the amount of heritable variation available
to selection. While this is typically quantified based on genetic variation in a focal individual …

Behavioural syndromes are suites of behaviours that corelate between-individuals but the
same behaviours may also show within-individual correlations owing to state dependency or …

Individual dietary specialization, where individuals occupy a subset of a population's wider
dietary niche, is a key factor determining a species resilience against environmental change …

The conditions an organism experiences during development can modify how they
plastically respond to short-term changes in their environment later in life. This can be …

Early developmental environments can shape how organisms respond to later
environments, but despite the potential for this phenomenon to alter the evolution of …

Social behaviors can be influenced by the genotypes of interacting individuals through
indirect genetic effects (IGEs) and can also display developmental plasticity. We investigated …

The estimation of heritability is a common practice in the field of ecology and evolution.
Heritability of the traits is often estimated using one single measurement per individual …

Highlights•We compared gustatory and visual learning in genotypes of two Drosophila
species.•Only D. sechellia (not D. simulans) learned to avoid gustatory+ aversive …

Despite the advantages of lasting pair bonds and the prevalence of monogamy, at least in
avian species, some individuals switch mates (divorce). Divorce is generally considered to …

An individual's future behaviour and fitness are strongly influenced by early life experience.
Within the suite of factors that underpin juvenile development, sleep plays a particularly …