In many animal societies, individuals differ consistently in their ability to win agonistic
interactions, resulting in dominance hierarchies. These differences arise due to a range of …

A nongenetic, transgenerational effect of parental age on offspring fitness has been
described in many taxa in the laboratory. Such a transgenerational fitness effect will have …

As environmental fluctuations are becoming more common, organisms need to rapidly adapt
to anthropogenic, climatic, and ecological changes. Epigenetic modifications and DNA …

Non-genetic influences on phenotypic traits can affect our interpretation of genetic variance
and the evolutionary potential of populations to respond to selection, with consequences for …

Animal research often relies on catching wild animals; however, individuals may have
different trappability, and this can generate bias. We studied bias in mist netting, the main …

In species with biparental care, behavioral coordination in the provisioning of the progeny is
hypothesized to increase the number of offspring that survive to independence …

Measuring parental care behaviour in the wild is central to the study of animal ecology and
evolution, but it is often labour‐and time‐intensive. Efficient open‐source tools have recently …

The selective pressure from pathogens on individuals can have direct consequences on
reproduction. Genes from the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are central to the …

How has evolution led to the variation in behavioural phenotypes (personalities) in a
population? Knowledge of whether personality is heritable, and to what degree it is …

Theory predicts that individuals behave altruistically towards their relatives. Hence, some
form of kin recognition is useful for individuals to optimize their behavior. In species that …