Heritability of boldness and aggressiveness in the zebrafish

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-167

  Ariyomo, Tolulope O ^a   Carter, Mauricio ^b   Watt, Penelope J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Additive genetic variance; Aggressiveness; Boldness; Heritability; Maternal effects; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSIVENESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BOLDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISH GENETICS; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; ZEBRA FISH;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHENOTYPE; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 84879412027     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-013-9585-y     Document Type: Article

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