Heritability of body mass varies with age and season in wild bighorn sheep

Heredity

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 526-532

  Réale, Denis ^a   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^a   Jorgenson, Jon T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Natural Resources Service   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body mass; Genetic variance; Heritability; Mammals; Ovis canadensis; REML

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIANCE; HERITABILITY; SEASONALITY; SHEEP; WILD RELATIVE;

MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0344560654     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6885430     Document Type: Article

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