- Abstract:
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Feather-pecking in domestic birds is associated with cannibalism and severe welfare problems. It is a dramatic example of a spiteful behaviour in which the victim's fitness is reduced for no immediate direct benefit to the perpetrator and its evolution is unexplained. Here we show that the plumage pigmentation of a chicken may predispose it to become a victim: birds suffer more drastic feather-pecking when the colour of their plumage is due to the expression of a wild recessive allele at PMEL...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- Nature
- Volume:
- 431
- Issue:
- 7009
- Pages:
- 645-646
- Publication date:
- 2004-10-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1476-4687
- ISSN:
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0028-0836
- URN:
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uuid:88c87814-12a1-4cac-b081-e08e0db34d85
- Source identifiers:
-
209271
- Local pid:
- pubs:209271
- Copyright date:
- 2004
Journal article
Chicken genomics: feather-pecking and victim pigmentation.
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