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Best Publications

  • Repeatability and heritability of exploratory behaviour in great tits from the wild

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Christiaan Both;Piet J. Drent;Kees van Oers

  • Realized heritability of personalities in the great tit (Parus major)

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  • Realized heritability and repeatability of risk-taking behaviour in relation to avian personalities

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  • Contribution of genetics to the study of animal personalities: a review of case studies

    K. van Oers;G. de Jong;A. J. van Noordwijk;B. Kempenaers

  • Phenology, seasonal timing and circannual rhythms: towards a unified framework

    Marcel E. Visser;Samuel P. Caro;Kees van Oers;Sonja von Schaper

  • Shy and bold great tits (Parus major): body temperature and breath rate in response to handling stress

    Claudio Carere;Kees van Oers

  • Context dependence of personalities: risk-taking behavior in a social and a nonsocial situation

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  • Drd4 gene polymorphisms are associated with personality variation in a passerine bird.

    Andrew E Fidler;Kees van Oers;Piet J Drent;Sylvia Kuhn

  • The effect of personality on social foraging: shy barnacle geese scrounge more

    Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers;Herbert H. T. Prins;Sipke E. van Wieren;Kees van Oers

  • Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

    Veronika N. Laine;Toni I. Gossmann;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Colin J. Garroway

  • Personality differences explain leadership in barnacle geese

    Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers;Babette Eijkelenkamp;Kees van Oers;Bart van Lith

  • Recent natural selection causes adaptive evolution of an avian polygenic trait

    Mirte Bosse;Lewis G. Spurgin;Lewis G. Spurgin;Veronika N. Laine;Ella F. Cole

  • Personality is associated with extrapair paternity in great tits, Parus major

    Kees Van Oers;Pieter Jan Drent;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Bart Kempenaers

  • Dose-dependent responses of avian daily rhythms to artificial light at night

    Maaike de Jong;Lizanne Jeninga;Jenny Q Ouyang;Kees van Oers

  • Personality predicts the use of social information

    Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers;Kees Van Oers;Bart A. Nolet;Rudy M. Jonker

  • Association between DRD4 gene polymorphism and personality variation in great tits: a test across four wild populations

    Peter Korsten;Jakob C. Mueller;Christine Hermannstädter;Karen M. Bouwman

  • Evolutionary genomics of animal personality

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  • Personality affects learning performance in difficult tasks in a sex-dependent way

    Mieke Titulaer;Kees van Oers;Marc Naguib

  • A genetic analysis of avian personality traits: correlated, response to artificial selection.

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  • Corticosterone responses differ between lines of great tits (Parus major) selected for divergent personalities.

    Alexander T. Baugh;Sonja V. Schaper;Michaela Hau;John F. Cockrem

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
Marc Naguib
Marc Naguib Wageningen University & Research
Michaela Hau
Michaela Hau University of Konstanz
Martien A. M. Groenen
Martien A. M. Groenen Wageningen University & Research
Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Ben C. Sheldon
Ben C. Sheldon University of Oxford
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Phillip Gienapp
Phillip Gienapp University of Helsinki
Jon Slate
Jon Slate University of Sheffield
Tapio Eeva
Tapio Eeva University of Turku

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