Santostefano, FrancescaMoiron, MariaSánchez-Tójar, AlfredoFisher, David2025-02-112025-02-112025-02Santostefano, F, Moiron, M, Sánchez-Tójar, A & Fisher, D 2025, 'Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviours : a meta-analysis', Evolution Letters, vol. 9, no. 1, qrae051, pp. 89-104. https://doi.org/10.1093/evlett/qrae0512056-3744ORCID: /0000-0002-4444-4450/work/170011586https://hdl.handle.net/2164/25026I am grateful to Vikki Entwistle, Sone Erikainen, Sandro Gulì, Gerry Hough, Jesper Kallestrup, Paula Sweeney, Stephan Torre, Ulrich Stegmann and to two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on a prior version of this paper. We would like to thank Denis Reale, Clint Kelly, and Pierre-Olivier Montiglio for their feedback in the earlier stages of the project, and Daniel W.A. Noble for statistical advice. We thank the participants of the 2023 WAMBAM conference and Alastair Wilson for useful discussion. We also thank Allen Moore, Joel Pick, and one anonymous reviewer for their constructive feedback, which improved the manuscript. We are grateful to the following authors who provided additional data for the meta-analysis when we contacted them: Alastair Wilson, Anasuya Chakrabarty, Cristina Sartori, Esther Ellen, Chang Han, Jane Reid, João Costa e Silva, Jennifer Morinay, Mark Adams, Miriam Piles, Moha Ragab, Ingrid David, Paolo Carnier, Ryan Germain, Setegn Alemu, Simon Evans, and Céline Teplitsky.167762036enganimal modelassociative genetic effectsinteracting phenotypesquantitative geneticssocial evolutionsocial interactionsQH301 BiologySupplementary Datahttps://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/Journal/evlett/PAP/10.1093_evlett_qrae051/1/qrae051_suppl_supplementary_material.docx?Expires=1737371706&Signature=rpdr0vw37uvtWeNmyXSX5B77cBjo~f-o8fx9XUp4VeJijeXyqLKAHW5ybNY7AyKjDbLVXd3tAPzhZD4jFkOfWPKbiuAbFKSAWe0NvJEWeaK9RxX56h4BWUajW-Agz7c1NX2zXd6AGSgPGiypyQ8n2dp2YYCikFbDmA6iorbxSvmp1L5M~1tGQIo2h7RxtzE3UKw3OVV0rYWT4SGK7ch0GjQUZLeqpkQjnGS-qt0-O00B3ZxLp~kAfuqRbsjqJjEfLddJR200qB1oI88pCGq6u-DQxne3l9BQQB6NFoEReGnxXHuebnAOD3oQN4g2JTpCZIC3UZWwaxAA-QS0b4lUZQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGAQH301Indirect genetic effects increase the heritable variation available to selection and are largest for behaviours : a meta-analysisJournal article10.1093/evlett/qrae05191