Genetic selection on a behavioural fear trait is associated with changes in heart rate variability in quail

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 339-346

  Valance, D ^a,c   Despres G ^b   Boissy, A ^b   Mignon Grasteau, S ^a   Constantin, P ^a   Leterrier, C ^a  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

^c STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Fear; Genetics; Heart rate variability; Quail; Tonic immobility

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; PROPRANOLOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; INJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TONIC IMMOBILITY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATROPINE; COTURNIX; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; PERSONALITY; PROPRANOLOL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYMPATHOLYTICS; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE;

PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 34249032732     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2006.00262.x     Document Type: Article

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