Major Growth QTLs in Fowl Are Related to Fearful Behavior: Possible Genetic Links between Fear Responses and Production Traits in a Red Junglefowl x White Leghorn Intercross

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-130

  Schütz, Karin E ^a   Kerje, Susanne ^a   Jacobsson, Lina ^a   Forkman, Björn ^b   Carlborg, Örjan ^a   Andersson, Leif ^a   Jensen, Per ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG PRODUCTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOWL; GALLUS GALLUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROWTH; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEXUAL MATURATION; TONIC IMMOBILITY; WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; OVIPOSITION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0942279605     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000009481.98336.fc     Document Type: Article

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