Trainability and boldness traits differ between dog breed clusters based on conventional breed categories and genetic relatedness

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 61-70

  Turcsán, Borbála ^a   Kubinyi, Eniko ^a   Miklósi, Ádám ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Breed characteristics; Dog; Domestication; Genetic relatedness; Typical behaviour

Indexed keywords

CANID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DOMESTICATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; LEARNING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORPHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RANKING; RELATEDNESS; SELECTIVE BREEDING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRAINING;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 79955120601     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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