Postnatal care generates phenotypic behavioural correlations in the Japanese quail

F Pittet, C Tyson, JA Herrington, C Houdelier… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2019 - Springer
Behavioural phenotypes can be highly constrained by interdependent behavioural traits.
Studies in different taxa showed that these behavioural phenotypic correlations are not …

Chicks from stressed females elicit overprotective behaviour in adoptive mother quail

N Aigueperse, C Houdelier, O Le Bot… - Behavioural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Beyond the genetic links between mother and young, prenatal effects experienced by
offspring can modulate their mother's behaviour and stress. Here we investigated the …

Mother‐chick interactions are affected by chicks' sex and brood composition in Japanese quail

N Aigueperse, C Houdelier, C Nicolle… - Developmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sex is a trait which leads mothers to invest asymmetrically in their young, especially in
species with a strong dimorphism. Authors usually consider that members of the largest sex …

Mothers provide similar care to related and unrelated chicks in quail

N Aigueperse, C Houdelier, C Nicolle… - Applied Animal Behaviour …, 2020 - Elsevier
Adoption is an usual procedure to experiment non-genomic influences on young
development. However relatedness may be a variation factor of maternal behaviour who can …

Rôle de l'environnement précoce dans la variabilité des phénotypes et l'adaptation des animaux d'élevage à leur milieu

F Pitel, F Calenge, N Aigueperse, J Estellé… - INRA Productions …, 2019 - torrossa.com
∎ Le phénotype d'un individu est l'expression de ses gènes, de son environnement, et de
leurs interactions, mais également de son histoire de vie. L'environnement précoce en …