Heritability and phenotypic correlations of behaviour and dominance rank of Japanese quail

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 813-820

  Nol, Erica ^a   Cheng, Kimberly ^b   Nichols, Cathleen ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE HIERARCHY; HERITABILITY; JAPANESE QUAIL; NATURAL SELECTION;

COTURNIX JAPONICA;

EID: 0030251205     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0226     Document Type: Article

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