@article{b02b257bb2de4a78adbb47a82919079f,
title = "Parenting behaviour is highly heritable in male stickleback",
abstract = "Parental care is critical for fitness, yet little is known about its genetic basis. Here, we estimate the heritability of parenting behaviour in a species famous for its diversity and its behavioural repertoire: three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Male three-spined stickleback are the sole providers of parental care that is necessary for offspring survival; therefore, this system offers the opportunity to study the inheritance of parental behaviour when selection is primarily acting on males. Fanning behaviour is a conspicuous parental behaviour that is readily quantified in this species. We show that the heritability of fanning behaviour is ≥0.9 and significantly different from zero within a freshwater population. Moreover, there was abundant genetic variation for fanning behaviour, indicating that it could readily evolve. These results suggest that parenting behaviour is tractable for further genetic dissection in this system..",
author = "Bell, {Alison M.} and Rebecca Trapp and Jason Keagy",
note = "Funding Information: Ethics. This work was carried out under the University of Illinois IACUC protocol no. 15077. Animals were collected under a California Fish and Game Collecting permit no. SC-3310 to A.M.B. Data accessibility. Data are available on Dryad (http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rm230) [60]. Authorcontributions. A.M.B.conceivedof,designedandcoordinatedthestudy,andwrotethefirstdraftofthemanuscript. R.T. made the crosses, collected the behaviour data, participated in the data analysis and drafted the manuscript. J.K. carried out the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript. All the authors gave their final approval for publication. Competing interests. We have no competing interests. Funding. This work was supported by grants from the NSF (IOS 1121980) and NIH (R01 GM082937). Acknowledgements. We thank members of the Bell lab and anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on the manuscript and Charles Roseman for advice about the animal model. We thank the Putah Creek Reserve for allowing us to collect fish on the Reserve. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 The Authors.",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1098/rsos.171029",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "5",
journal = "Royal Society Open Science",
issn = "2054-5703",
publisher = "The Royal Society",
number = "1",
}