A growth-related QTL on chicken chromosome 1 has previously been shown to influence domestication behaviour in chickens. In this study, we used Red Junglefowl (RJF) and White Leghorn (WL) as well as the intercross between them to investigate whether stress affects the way birds allocate their time between familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics in a social preference test (‘social support seeking’), and how this is related to genotype at specific loci within the growth QTL. Red Junglefowl males spent more time with unfamiliar chickens before the stressful event compared to the other birds, whereas all birds except WL males tended to spend less time with unfamiliar ones after stress. A significant QTL locus was found to influence both social pr...
The domestication of animals has generated a set of phenotypicmodifications, affecting behaviour, ap...
White Leghorn (WL) breed is homozygous for an allele on the α2C-AR gene while the Red Junglefowl (RJ...
The mechanisms behind early domestication of animals are still unknown and an important question is ...
When animals are stressed they use a trait called social support to alleviate their stress responses...
Social support is thought to give animals benefits from social partners, such as improved coping wit...
The domestic fowl has a different social behavior compared to their ancestor, the red junglefowl. To...
The growing realisation that selective breeding may offer rapid solutions to certain animal welfare ...
<div><p>Domestication has caused a range of similar phenotypic changes across taxa, relating to phys...
Historically during domestication of animals, tameness towards humans was likely the most desired tr...
Red junglefowl (RJF), ancestor of all domesticated chickens, is a highly social, omnivorous bird spe...
Animal domestication, the process where animals become adapted to living in proximity to humans, is ...
Domestication has caused a range of similar phenotypic changes across taxa, relating to physiology, ...
Prosocial behaviour is pronounced in humans and prevalent in some non-human animals, however, the oc...
Early animal domestication may have been driven by selection on tameness. Selection on only tameness...
The aim of this thesis was to study chickens of an F7 intercross between red junglefowl and White Le...
The domestication of animals has generated a set of phenotypicmodifications, affecting behaviour, ap...
White Leghorn (WL) breed is homozygous for an allele on the α2C-AR gene while the Red Junglefowl (RJ...
The mechanisms behind early domestication of animals are still unknown and an important question is ...
When animals are stressed they use a trait called social support to alleviate their stress responses...
Social support is thought to give animals benefits from social partners, such as improved coping wit...
The domestic fowl has a different social behavior compared to their ancestor, the red junglefowl. To...
The growing realisation that selective breeding may offer rapid solutions to certain animal welfare ...
<div><p>Domestication has caused a range of similar phenotypic changes across taxa, relating to phys...
Historically during domestication of animals, tameness towards humans was likely the most desired tr...
Red junglefowl (RJF), ancestor of all domesticated chickens, is a highly social, omnivorous bird spe...
Animal domestication, the process where animals become adapted to living in proximity to humans, is ...
Domestication has caused a range of similar phenotypic changes across taxa, relating to physiology, ...
Prosocial behaviour is pronounced in humans and prevalent in some non-human animals, however, the oc...
Early animal domestication may have been driven by selection on tameness. Selection on only tameness...
The aim of this thesis was to study chickens of an F7 intercross between red junglefowl and White Le...
The domestication of animals has generated a set of phenotypicmodifications, affecting behaviour, ap...
White Leghorn (WL) breed is homozygous for an allele on the α2C-AR gene while the Red Junglefowl (RJ...
The mechanisms behind early domestication of animals are still unknown and an important question is ...