Genetic analysis of emotional reactivity in sheep: Effects of the genotypes of the lambs and of their dams

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 381-401

  Boissy, Alain ^a   Bouix, Jacques ^b   Orgeur, Pierre ^c   Poindron, Pascal ^c   Bibé, Bernard ^b   Le Neindre, Pierre ^a  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Emotional reactivity; Genetics; Human contact; Sheep; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

SHEEP;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHEEP;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 21244463927     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2005007     Document Type: Article

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