Indirect Genetic Effects and Housing Conditions in Relation to Aggressive Behaviour in Pigs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Camerlink, Irene ^a   Turner, Simon P ^b   Bijma, Piter ^a   Bolhuis, J Elizabeth ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FIGHTING; GENETIC SELECTION; HEREDITY; INDIRECT GENETIC EFFECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; SKIN DEFECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SWINE; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PIG; PSYCHOLOGY;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SWINE;

EID: 84878795824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065136     Document Type: Article

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