Heritability and genetic correlations of fear-related behaviour in red junglefowl-possible implications for early domestication

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Agnvall, Beatrix ^a   Jöngren, Markus ^a   Strandberg, Erling ^b   Jensen, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTICATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; FORAGING; GROWTH; HERITABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; RED JUNGLEFOWL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TONIC IMMOBILITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANXIETY; CHICKENS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; HUMANS; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84859859829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035162     Document Type: Article

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