Seaman Ben, Briffa Mark
Marine Biology & Ecology Research Centre, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL3 8AA, UK.
Marine Biology & Ecology Research Centre, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL3 8AA, UK.
Behav Processes. 2015 Jun;115:132-4. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2015.03.014. Epub 2015 Mar 31.
We demonstrate the presence of animal personality in an inter-tidal gastropod, Littorina littorea, both in a sample of individuals infected by the trematode Cryptocotyle lingua and in an uninfected sample. On average infected individuals behaved more cautiously than individuals free of infection, but the parasite did not affect repeatability. Although the parasite is not associated with greater diversity of behaviour amongst infected individuals, infection might be associated with state-dependent personality differences between infected and non-infected individuals.
我们证明了潮间带腹足动物滨螺（Littorina littorea）存在动物个性，这在感染吸虫隐孔吸虫（Cryptocotyle lingua）的个体样本以及未感染样本中均有体现。平均而言，受感染个体的行为比未感染个体更为谨慎，但寄生虫并未影响行为的可重复性。虽然寄生虫与受感染个体中行为的更大多样性无关，但感染可能与受感染和未受感染个体之间状态依赖的个性差异有关。
