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Heritability of cortisol response to confinement stress in European sea bass dicentrarchus labrax.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 19 Jun 2012
Volckaert Filip A M, Hellemans Bart, Batargias Costas, Louro Bruno, Massault Cécile, Van Houdt Jeroen K J, Haley Chris, de Koning Dirk-Jan, Canario Adelino V M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In fish, the most studied production traits in terms of heritability are body weight or growth, stress or disease resistance, while heritability of cortisol levels, widely used as a measure of response to stress, is less studied. In this study, we have estimated heritabilities of two growth traits (body weight and length) and of cortisol response to confinement stress in the European sea bass....
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