Understanding the evolution of personality requires the study of mechanisms behind the development and life history of personality traits

Epigenetics in natural animal populations

(2017) J. Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Contrasting gene expression programs correspond with predator-induced phenotypic plasticity within and across generations in Daphnia

(2017) Nicole R. Hales et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Physiological mechanisms underlying animal social behaviour

(2017) Frank Seebacher et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behavioural individuality in clonal fish arises despite near-identical rearing conditions

(2017) David Bierbach et al.   Nature Communications

Evaluating ‘Plasticity-First’ Evolution in Nature: Key Criteria and Empirical Approaches

(2016) Nicholas A. Levis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Short- and long-term effects of developmental corticosterone exposure on avian physiology, behavioral phenotype, cognition, and fitness: A review

(2016) Stephan J. Schoech et al.   Current Zoology

Social behaviour: can it change the brain?

(2015) Russell D. Fernald   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying behavioral stability: implications for the evolutionary origin of personality

(2015) Renée A. Duckworth   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Hazards inherent in interdisciplinary behavioral research

(2015) David Crews et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Adaptive explanations for sensitive windows in development

(2015) Tim W Fawcett et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Behavioural phenotypes over the lifetime of a holometabolous insect

(2015) Thorben Müller et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Epigenetic mutations can both help and hinder adaptive evolution

(2015) Ilkka Kronholm et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The importance of mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation

(2015) Pieter van den Berg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An evolutionary framework for studying mechanisms of social behavior

(2014) Hans A. Hofmann et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Between-individual differences in behavioural plasticity within populations: causes and consequences

(2013) Niels J. Dingemanse et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Behavioural profiles are shaped by social experience: when, how and why

(2013) N. Sachser et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Personality and metamorphosis: is behavioral variation consistent across ontogenetic niche shifts?

(2012) Alexander D. M. Wilson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Transgenerational Epigenetic Effects on Brain Functions

(2012) Johannes Bohacek et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Repeatability for Gaussian and non-Gaussian data: a practical guide for biologists

(2010) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Epigenetics meets endocrinology

(2010) X. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Toward a population genetic framework of developmental evolution: the costs, limits, and consequences of phenotypic plasticity

(2009) Emilie C. Snell-Rood et al.   BIOESSAYS

The development of animal personality: relevance, concepts and perspectives

(2009) Judy Stamps et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Epigenetic Programming of Phenotypic Variations in Reproductive Strategies in the Rat Through Maternal Care

(2008) N. M. Cameron et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Retention of Memory through Metamorphosis: Can a Moth Remember What It Learned As a Caterpillar?

(2008) Douglas J. Blackiston et al.   PLoS One

Robustness and evolvability: a paradox resolved

(2007) A. Wagner   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES