Discontinuous variability of brain composition among domestic chicken breeds

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 59-69

  Rehkämper, Gerd ^a   Kart, Emriye ^a   Frahm, Heiko D ^a   Werner, Christian W ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Brain allometry; Chicken breeds; Cluster analysis; Domestication; Intraspecific variability; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN TISSUE; BREED; BREED DIFFERENCE; CHICKEN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOMESTICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHICKENS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PEDIGREE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0346665743     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000069352     Document Type: Article

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