Behavioral syndromes in paper wasps: Links between social and non-social personality in Polistes fuscatus

作     者：Fatima W.Joma Emily C.Laub Elizabeth A.Tibbetts 

作者机构：Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of Michigan1105 N University AveAnn ArborMI 48109USA 

出 版 物：《Current Zoology》 (动物学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第70卷第5期

页      面：659-667页

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学科分类：081702[工学-化学工艺] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 

基　　金：supported by the University of Michigan National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation Grants IOS 1557564 and 2134910 

主　　题：behavioral syndrome paper wasp personality. 

摘      要：Although much work has focused on non-social personality traits such as activity, exploration, and neophobia, there is a growing appreciationthat social personality traits play an important role in group dynamics, disease transmission, and fitness and that social personality traits maybe linked to non-social personality traits. These relationships are important because behavioral syndromes, defined here as correlated behavioral phenotypes, can constrain evolutionary responses. However, the strength and direction of relationships between social and non-socialpersonality traits remain unclear. In this project, we examine social and non-social personality traits, and the relationships between them, in thepaper wasp Polistes fuscatus. With a novel assay, we identify 5 personality traits, 2 non-social (exploration and activity), and 3 social (aggression, affiliation, and antennation) personality traits. We also find that social and non-social personality traits are phenotypically linked. We find apositive correlation between aggression and activity and a negative correlation between affiliation and activity. We also find a positive correlation between exploration and activity. Our work is an important step in understanding how phenotypic linkage between social and non-socialbehaviors may influence behavioral evolution. As a burgeoning model system for the study of genetic and neurobiological mechanisms of socialbehavior, Polistes fuscatus has the potential to add to this work by exploring the causes and consequences of individual behavioral variation.