DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mq0v9
title: Data from: Heritability and social brood effects on personality in juvenile and adult life-history stages in a wild passerine

description: How has evolution led to the variation in behavioural phenotypes
 (personalities) in a population? Knowledge of whether personality is
 heritable, and to what degree it is influenced by the social environment,
 is crucial to understanding its evolutionary significance, yet few
 estimates are available from natural populations. We tracked three
 behavioural traits during different life-history stages in a pedigreed
 population of wild house sparrows. Using a quantitative genetic approach,
 we demonstrated heritability in adult exploration, and in nestling
 activity after accounting for fixed effects, but not in adult boldness. We
 did not detect maternal effects on any traits, but we did detect a social
 brood effect on nestling activity. Boldness, exploration and nestling
 activity in this population did not form a behavioural syndrome,
 suggesting that selection could act independently on these behavioural
 traits in this species, although we found no consistent support for
 phenotypic selection on these traits. Our work shows that repeatable
 behaviours can vary in their heritability, and that social context
 influences personality traits. Future efforts could separate whether
 personality traits differ in heritability because they have served
 specific functional roles in the evolution of the phenotype, or because
 our concept of personality and the stability of behaviour needs to be
 revised.
description: Adult
 BoldnessData of adult boldness
 measures for Lundy Island house sparrows. Please see the metadata in the
 readme associated with this file, and the R code to run the analyses in
 the paper.AdultBoldness.txtAdultExplorationAdult exploration data from the Lundy Island house sparrow population. Please see the metadata in the readme for a description of the data, and the associated R code to run the analyses in the paper.BivariateAdultBoldnessBonus data for running a bivariate model for adult boldness. Please see the metadata in the readme for a description of the data, and the associated R code to run the analyses in the paper.Nestling ActivityNestling activity data from the Lundy Island house sparrow population. Please see the metadata in the readme for a description of the data, and the associated R code to run the analyses in the paper.NestlingActivity.txtNestling Activity - Between ObserverData for calculating the consistency between observers for watching nestling activity videos. Metadata is in the readme file and see the R scripts for code to run the analyses from the paper.NestlingActivity-BetweenObserver.txtPedigreeThe pedigree. Metadata is in the readme file and see the R scripts for code to run the analyses from the paper.Heritability Of Personality R ScriptsThese are all the analysis scripts used to produce the results in the paper and more. Begin with script AA-MasterFile. This script calls in all the other scripts in the correct order, and contains a printout of the session info from the last time the scripts were run as a record of all package versions that were used. Remember to update the filepaths.HeritabilityOfPersonalityRScripts.zip