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Genetic Architecture of Innate Fear Behavior in Chickens.
Behavior genetics - 1 Nov 2020
Ishikawa Akira, Sakaguchi Marina, Nagano Atsushi J, Suzuki Sae
Abstract excerpt
The genetic architecture of innate fear behavior in chickens is poorly understood. Here, we performed quantitative trait loci (QTL) analysis of innate responses to tonic immobility (TI) and open field (OF) fears in 242 newly hatched chicks of an F2 population between the native Japanese Nagoya breed and the White Leghorn breed using 881 single nucleotide polymorphism markers obtained by restriction...
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