Nonspecific imprintability of quail to colors: response to artificial selection.

doi:10.1007/BF01070744

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Nonspecific imprintability of quail to colors: response to artificial selection.

Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 1990

Kovach J

Abstract excerpt

Eleven generations of bidirectionally selecting quail (C. coturnix japonica) for nonspecific imprintability to blue or red stimuli resulted in unexpectedly slow yet reliable differentiation of "Hi" and "Lo" imprintability lines. Correlated changes were observed in the variances of unconditional c...

Topics

Animals
Color Perception
Coturnix
Genetic Variation
Imprinting, Psychological
Quail
Selection, Genetic

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