Testing Cheverud's conjecture for behavioral correlations and behavioral syndromes.

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Recent research regarding correlations among behaviors--under the labels of behavioral syndromes and animal personalities--has typically assumed that phenotypic correlations between behaviors are representative of underling genetic correlations. However, for behaviors, the concordance between phenotypic and genetic correlations has not been rigorously examined. I tested this assumption using published estimates...

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