Breeding for robustness: the role of cortisol*
Robustness in farm animals was defined by Knap as ‘the ability to combine a high production potential with resilience to stressors, allowing for unproblematic expression of a high production potential in a wide variety of environmental conditions’. The importance of robustness-related traits in bree...
Main Authors: | P. Mormède, A. Foury, E. Terenina, P.W. Knap |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2011-01-01
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Series: | Animal |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731110002168 |
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