Persistence of vigilance and flight response behaviour in wild reindeer with varying domestic ancestry

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1543-1554

  Reimers, E ^a   Roed K H ^b   Colman, J E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Domestication, fright behaviour; Habituation; Hunting; Microsatellites; Rangifer tarandus; Vigilance.

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

DEER; DOMESTIC SPECIES; DOMESTICATION; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; HABITUATION; HUNTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; VIGILANCE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINDEER; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NORWAY; REINDEER; SEASONS;

NORWAY;

MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 84864022056     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02538.x     Document Type: Article

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