Sociability as a personality trait in animals: methods, causes and consequences

LA Gartland, JA Firth, KL Laskowski… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Within animal populations there is variation among individuals in their tendency to be social,
where more sociable individuals associate more with other individuals. Consistent inter …

Anticipated effects of abiotic environmental change on intraspecific social interactions

DN Fisher, RJ Kilgour, ER Siracusa… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Social interactions are ubiquitous across the animal kingdom. A variety of ecological and
evolutionary processes are dependent on social interactions, such as movement, disease …

Selection on heritable social network positions is context-dependent in Drosophila melanogaster

EW Wice, JB Saltz - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Social group structure is highly variable and can be important for nearly every aspect of
behavior and its fitness consequences. Group structure can be modeled using social …

Early-life social environment predicts social network position in wild zebra finches

HB Brandl, DR Farine, C Funghi… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Early-life experience can fundamentally shape individual life-history trajectories. Previous
research has suggested that exposure to stress during development causes differences in …

Using flies to understand social networks

JA Jezovit, N Alwash, JD Levine - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Many animals live in groups and interact with each other, creating an organized collective
structure. Social network analysis (SNA) is a statistical tool that aids in revealing and …

Indirect genetic effects for social network structure in Drosophila melanogaster

EW Wice, JB Saltz - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The position an individual holds in a social network is dependent on both its direct and
indirect social interactions. Because social network position is dependent on the actions and …

Dynamic relationships between information transmission and social connections

IG Kulahci, JL Quinn - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2019 - cell.com
Understanding the drivers of sociality is a major goal in biology. Individual differences in
social connections determine the overall group structure and have consequences for a …

Indirectly connected: simple social differences can explain the causes and apparent consequences of complex social network positions

JA Firth, BC Sheldon, LJN Brent - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal societies are often structurally complex. How individuals are positioned within the
wider social network (ie their indirect social connections) has been shown to be repeatable …

Consistent individual variation across interaction networks indicates social personalities in lemurs

IG Kulahci, AA Ghazanfar, DI Rubenstein - Animal behaviour, 2018 - Elsevier
Group members interact with each other during multiple social behaviours that range from
aggressive to affiliative interactions. It is not known, however, whether an individual's suite of …

Long-term repeatability in social behaviour suggests stable social phenotypes in wild chimpanzees

PJ Tkaczynski, A Mielke, L Samuni… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Consistent individual differences in social phenotypes have been observed in many animal
species. Changes in demographics, dominance hierarchies or ecological factors, such as …