Behavioural Mediators of Genetic Life-history Trade-offs: a Test of the Pace-of-life Syndrome Hypothesis in Field Crickets

Overview

Journal Proc Biol Sci

Specialty Biology

Date 2017 Oct 6

PMID 28978731

Citations 14

Authors

Francesca Santostefano

Alastair J Wilson

Petri T Niemela

Niels J Dingemanse

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Abstract

The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) hypothesis predicts associations between life history and 'risky' behaviours. Individuals with 'fast' lifestyles should develop faster, reproduce earlier, exhibit more risk-prone behaviours, and die sooner than those with 'slow' lifestyles. While support for POLS has been equivocal to date, studies have relied on individual-level (phenotypic) patterns in which genetic trade-offs may be masked by environmental effects on phenotypes. We estimated genetic correlations between life history (development, lifespan, size) and risky behaviours (exploration, aggression) in a pedigreed population of Mediterranean field crickets (). Path analyses showed that behaviours mediated some genetic relationships between life history traits, though not those involved in trade-offs. Thus, while specific predictions of POLS theory were not supported, genetic integration of behaviour and life history was present. This implies a major role for risky behaviours in life history evolution.

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