The early-life environment of a pig shapes the phenotypes of its social partners in adulthood

Heredity

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 534-541

  Canario, L ^a,d   Lundeheim, N ^b   Bijma, P ^c  

^a Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UMR1388 GenPhySE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPE; PIG; SHAPE;

MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PIG; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 85015890908     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2017.3     Document Type: Article

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