David J. Mitchell

TL;DR: Despite the high potential lability of behaviour, this work has demonstrated consistency of behavioural RN components and identified potential energetic constraints leading to high consistency of thermal RNs and low consistency of food deprivation RNs.

TL;DR: Focusing on activity rates in guppies, a model example is provided, from sampling design to data analysis, in how to quantify rIIV in labile traits and how to further generalize the model to evaluate covariances with other aspects of phenotypic variation.

TL;DR: The objective of this study was to establish an experimental procedure and show direct AFM measurements that unequivocally can be assigned to a single agent as the best predictor of AFM in mice.

TL;DR: It is argued that separation from plasticity analyses represents a missed opportunity to integrate behavioral syndromes concepts, and through observations of multiple traits while manipulating environmental conditions, can quantify how the environment shapes behavioral correlations, thus quantifying how phenotypes are differentially constrained or integrated under different environmental conditions.

TL;DR: Predictions generated by Bayesian models of development are made about the effects of an aversive olfactory conditioning regime on the response of Drosophila melanogaster larvae to the odor of ethyl acetate and indicate that such models can be successfully used to investigate how variation across genotypes in information derived from ancestors combines with personal experience to differentially affect developmental plasticity in response to specific types of experience.