Heritabilities of agonistic behavioural traits in pigs and their relationships within and between different age groups

Livestock Science

Volumn 149, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 25-32

  Stukenborg, Andreas ^a   Traulsen, Imke ^a   Stamer, Eckhard ^b   Puppe, Birger ^c   Presuhn, Ulrich ^d   Krieter, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b TiDa Tier und Daten GmbH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^d Farm Concepts GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age groups; Agonistic behaviour; Correlation; Heritability; Pig

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE;

EID: 84865628763     PISSN: 18711413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2012.06.020     Document Type: Article

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