Although much work has focused on non-social personality traits such as activity, exploration, and neophobia, there is a growing appreciation that social personality traits play an important role in group dynamics, disease transmission, and fitness, and that social personality traits may be linked to non-social personality traits. These relationships are important because behavioral syndromes, defined here as correlated behavioral phenotypes, can constrain evolutionary responses. However, the strength and direction of relationships between social and non-social personality traits remain unclear. In this project, we examine social and non-social personality traits, and the relationships between them, in the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus. With a novel assay we identify five personality traits, two non-social (exploration and activity) and three social (aggression, affiliation, and antennation) personality traits. We also find that social and non-social personality traits are phenotypically linked. We find a positive correlation between aggression and activity and a negative correlation between affiliation and activity. We also find a positive correlation between exploration and activity. Our work is an important step in understanding how phenotypic linkage between social and non-social behaviors may influence behavioral evolution. As a burgeoning model system for the study of genetic and neurobiological mechanisms of social behavior, Polistes fuscatus has potential to add to this work through exploring the causes and consequences of individual behavioral variation.

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纸黄蜂的行为综合症：马蜂社会性和非社会性人格之间的联系

尽管很多工作都集中在非社会人格特质上，如活动、探索和恐新症，但人们越来越认识到，社会人格特质在群体动态、疾病传播和健康方面发挥着重要作用，并且社会人格特质可能是与非社会人格特征有关。这些关系很重要，因为行为综合症（这里定义为相关的行为表型）可以限制进化反应。然而，社会和非社会人格特质之间关系的强度和方向仍不清楚。在这个项目中，我们在论文黄蜂 Polistes fuscatus 中研究了社会和非社会人格特征以及它们之间的关系。通过一种新颖的分析，我们确定了五种人格特征，两种非社交（探索和活动）和三种社交（攻击性、归属感和触角）人格特征。我们还发现社会和非社会人格特征在表型上是相关的。我们发现攻击性和活动之间呈正相关，而归属感和活动之间呈负相关。我们还发现探索和活动之间呈正相关。我们的工作是理解社会和非社会行为之间的表型联系如何影响行为进化的重要一步。作为研究社会行为的遗传和神经生物学机制的新兴模型系统，马蜂有潜力通过探索个体行为变异的原因和后果来为这项工作做出贡献。