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QTL mapping of stress related gene expression in a cross between domesticated chickens and ancestral red junglefowl.
Molecular and cellular endocrinology - 5 May 2017
Fallahsharoudi Amir, de Kock Neil, Johnsson Martin, Bektic Lejla, Ubhayasekera S J Kumari A, Bergquist Jonas, Wright Dominic, Jensen Per
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Domestication of animals is associated with numerous alterations in physiology, morphology, and behavior. Lower reactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and reduced fearfulness is seen in most studied domesticates, including chickens. Previously we have shown that the physiological stress response as well as expression levels of hundreds of genes in the hypothalamus and adrenal glands are...
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