In the past decade there has been a profusion of studies highlighting covariation between individual differences instress physiology and behavioural profiles, here called personalities. Such individual differences in ...In the past decade there has been a profusion of studies highlighting covariation between individual differences instress physiology and behavioural profiles, here called personalities. Such individual differences in ways of coping with stress arerelevant both in biomedicine, since different personalities may experience a different stress and disease vulnerability, and in behaviouralecology, since their adaptive value and evolutionary maintenance are the subject of debate. However, the precise way inwhich individual stress differences and personalities are linked is unclear. Here we provide an updated overview of this covariationacross different species and taxa, consider its functional significance and present working hypotheses for how behaviouraland physiological responses to stress might be causally linked, affecting life-history traits such as dispersal and展开更多
文摘In the past decade there has been a profusion of studies highlighting covariation between individual differences instress physiology and behavioural profiles, here called personalities. Such individual differences in ways of coping with stress arerelevant both in biomedicine, since different personalities may experience a different stress and disease vulnerability, and in behaviouralecology, since their adaptive value and evolutionary maintenance are the subject of debate. However, the precise way inwhich individual stress differences and personalities are linked is unclear. Here we provide an updated overview of this covariationacross different species and taxa, consider its functional significance and present working hypotheses for how behaviouraland physiological responses to stress might be causally linked, affecting life-history traits such as dispersal and
