Breaking through artificial selection limits of an adaptive behavior in mice and the consequences for correlated responses

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 193-206

  Bult, Abel ^a,b   Lynch, Carol B ^c  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial selection; Correlated responses; Evolution; Mus domesticus; Nest building behavior; Realized heritability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MOUSE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BODY WEIGHT; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SELECTION (GENETICS); TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0033730192     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001962124005     Document Type: Article

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