Details of Heritability of Boldness and Hypoxia Avoidance in European Seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax

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Title of datasetHeritability of Boldness and Hypoxia Avoidance in European Seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax
Narrative summary of datasetTo understand the genetic basis of coping style in European seabass, fish from a full factorial mating (10 females x 50 males) were reared in common garden and individually tagged. Individuals coping style was characterized through behavior tests at four different ages, categorizing fish into proactive or reactive: a hypoxia avoidance test (at 255 days post hatching, dph) and 3 risk-taking tests (at 276, 286 and 304 dph). We observed significant heritability of the coping style, higher for the average of risk-taking scores (h² = 0.45 ± 0.14) than for the hypoxia avoidance test (h² = 0.19 ± 0.10). The genetic correlations between the three risk-taking scores were very high (rA = 0.96 – 0.99) showing that although their repeatability was moderately high (rP = 0.64 – 0.72), successive risk-taking tests evaluated the same genetic variation. A mild genetic correlation between the results of the hypoxia avoidance test and the average of risk-taking scores (0.45 ± 0.27) suggested that hypoxia avoidance and risk-taking tests do not address exactly the same behavioral and physiological responses. Genetic correlations between weight and risk taking traits showed negative values whatever the test used in our population i.e. reactive individual weights were larger. The results of this quantitative genetic analysis suggest a potential for the development of selection programs based on coping styles that could increase seabass welfare without altering growth performances. Overall, it also contributes to a better understanding of the origin and the significance of individual behavioral differences.
Supporting documentationhow to cite: Ferrari Sebastien, Horri Khaled, Allal Francois, Vergnet Alain, Benhaim David, Vandeputte Marc, Chatain Beatrice, Begout Marie-Laure (2016). Heritability of Boldness and Hypoxia Avoidance in European Seabass, Dicentrarchus labrax. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/47080
Start date1900-01-01
End date2016-01-01

Responsible organisations

CountryFrance
Organisation nameIfremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Role of organisationDataset Holding Organisation
CountryFrance
Organisation nameSEA scieNtific Open data Edition
Role of organisationPublisher

Dataset availability

Original dataset download linkhttps://cloud.emodnet-ingestion.eu/index.php/s/BGfjeg4BMTDfzI2
Date of original dataset publication2019-08-06
Dataset formatDelimited
Public accessNo limitations
License for useCC0 1.0
TypeDataset
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.17882/47080

Locations

Map
Latitude north boundary89
Longitude east boundary180
Latitude south boundary-89
Longitude west boundary-180
Coordinate reference systemWorld Geodetic System 84
Sea areaWorld

Data types, collection and processing

Observation typeFisheries
Aquaculture
ParameterFish morphology, age and physiology
Data quality processing informationQuality controlled data

Process information

Submitting organisationIfremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Submission identifier (UUID)49a28b3a-b76e-4f0e-af79-9b1de0d9401a
Date of dataset creation2016-01-01
Date of metadata creation2019-03-21
Date of metadata latest revision2019-07-19
Date of publishing2019-08-06
Processing data centreIfremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Summary record-ID541