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Feather colour affects the aggressive behaviour of chickens with the same genotype on the dominant white (I) locus
Aggression in chickens is a serious economic and animal welfare issue in poultry farming. Pigmentation traits have been documented to be associated with animal behaviour. Chicken pecking behaviour has been found to be related to feather colour, with premelanosome protein 17 (PMEL17) being one of the...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497237/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31048862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215921 |