The DOI matches its Crossref record; 7 of the 7 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Contribution of genetics to the study of animal personalities: a review of case studies
Open accessAbstract
The need for evolutionary studies on quantitative traits that integrate genetics is increasing.Studies on consistent individual differences in behavioural traits provide a good opportunity to do controlled experiments on the genetic mechanisms underlying the variation and covariation in complex behavioural traits.In this review we will highlight the contribution of genetic studies in animal personality research.We will start with reviewing the evidence that shows how much variation in animal personality traits is genetic, and connect this to knowledge from human personality studies.We will continue by considering the nature of that variation, its generation and maintenance.Finally we will point to further possibilities for studying the genetics of animal personalities.We will underline the importance of integrating both proximate and ultimate approaches when studying the evolution of animal personalities.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The genetical theory of natural selection
Fisher, R. A. (1930) · doi:10.5962/bhl.title.27468 · Cited by 17,617
The measurement of selection on correlated characters
Lande, R., & Arnold, S. J. (1983) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1983.tb00236.x · Cited by 5,437
Normal personality assessment in clinical practice: the NEO personality inventory
Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1992) · Psychological Assessment · doi:10.1037/1040-3590.4.1.5 · Cited by 3,414
Coping styles in animals: current status in behavior and stress-physiology
Koolhaas, J. M., Korte, S. M., De Boer, S. F., Van Der Vegt, B. J., Van Reenen, C. G., Hopster, H., De Jong, I. C., Ruis, M. A. W., & Blokhuis, H. J. (1999) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · doi:10.1016/s0149-7634(99)00026-3 · Cited by 2,999 · cited 6×
“These results show that despite a strong genetic correlation in one environment (van Oers et al., 2004b), and a possibly rigid underlying physiological mechanism (Koolhaas et al., 1999), phenotypic correlations between personality traits depend on the context in which they are measured.”
BackgroundInfluentialGenes, evolution, and personality
Bouchard, T. J., & Loehlin, J. C. (2001) · Behavior Genetics · doi:10.1023/a:1012294324713 · Cited by 1,085
Artificial selection for short and long attack latencies in wildMus musculus domesticus
van Oortmerssen, G. A., & Bakker, T. C. M. (1981) · Behavior Genetics · doi:10.1007/bf01065622 · Cited by 263
Maintenance of genetic variability by mutation–selection balance: a child's guide through the jungle
Bulmer, M. G. (1989) · Genome · doi:10.1139/g89-135 · Cited by 100
Cited by
The evolutionary genetics of personality
Penke, L., Denissen, J. J. A., & Miller, G. F. (2007) · European Journal of Personality · doi:10.1002/per.629 · Cited by 610
The stress response systems: Universality and adaptive individual differences☆
ELLIS, B., JACKSON, J., & BOYCE, W. (2006) · Developmental Review · doi:10.1016/j.dr.2006.02.004 · Cited by 265
KORSTEN, P., MUELLER, J. C., HERMANNSTÄDTER, C., BOUWMAN, K. M., DINGEMANSE, N. J., DRENT, P. J., LIEDVOGEL, M., MATTHYSEN, E., Van OERS, K., Van OVERVELD, T., et al. (2010) · Molecular Ecology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-294x.2009.04518.x · Cited by 123
Self-citationBailey, D. H., Walker, R. S., Blomquist, G. E., Hill, K. R., Hurtado, A. M., & Geary, D. C. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059325 · Cited by 42
Norman, M., Rowden, L. J., & Cowlishaw, G. (2021) · PeerJ · doi:10.7717/peerj.12044 · Cited by 29
Metadata
- Authors
- Drent, P. J., van Noordwijk, A. J., van Oers, K., de Jong, G., & Kempenaers, B.
- Venue
- Behaviour
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2005
- Volume
- 142
- Issue
- 9-10
- Pages
- 1185-1206
- ISSN
- 0005-7959 (ISSN-L)
- 1568-539X
- OpenAlex
- W2170844886
- Cited by
- 431
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 11.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Contribution of genetics to the study of animal personalities: a review of case studies. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1163/156853905774539364
- The paper
- Drent, P. J., van Noordwijk, A. J., van Oers, K., de Jong, G., & Kempenaers, B. (2005). Contribution of genetics to the study of animal personalities: a review of case studies. Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853905774539364
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
