by ThrustVectoring on 4/2/18, 6:44 PM
I feel like the causality is likely backwards from the title - if you are less vulnerable to disease, you can better afford to boldly take risks and explore new situations and withstand the possible negative consequences.
by sghi on 4/2/18, 8:08 PM
So this is the research area that I currently work in, albeit with a disease ecology perspective rather than a biochemistry one. I've had a quick read of it and and although it does seem to track other research that has been done ("Why are behavioral and immune traits linked?" by Lopes 2017 is a nice review) I'd love to see some power analyses - the sample size seems pretty small for something as complex as this question. The study I'm helping with now has a minimum sample size in the hundreds, for instance, for a broadly similar question. PCA-ing a few tests together is pretty common, but also comes with a lot of potential biases (see "Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioural ecology" by Houslay and Wilson if anyone is interested!)
by no-brainer on 4/2/18, 7:54 PM
tl:dr; healthier dogs seem happier...