Genetic parameters for social effects on survival in cannibalistic layers: Combining survival analysis and a linear animal model

BACKGROUND: Mortality due to cannibalism in laying hens is a difficult trait to improve genetically, because censoring is high (animals still alive at the end of the testing period) and it may depend on both the individual itself and the behaviour of its group members, so-called associative effects...

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Autores principales: Ellen, Esther D, Ducrocq, Vincent, Ducro, Bart J, Veerkamp, Roel F, Bijma, Piter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20609233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-42-27

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20609233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-42-27

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