Correlated response to selection for litter size environmental variability in rabbits’ resilience

Resilience is the ability of an animal to return soon to its initial productivity after facing diverse environmental challenges. This trait is directly related to animal welfare and it plays a key role in fluctuations of livestock productivity. A divergent selection experiment for environmental vari...

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Published in:	Animal (Cambridge, England) Vol. 13; no. 10; pp. 2348 - 2355
Main Authors:	Argente, M. J., García, M. L., Zbyňovská, K., Petruška, P., Capcarová, M., Blasco, A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01-10-2019 Elsevier Limited Elsevier
Subjects:	Adaptation, Physiological Adrenocorticotropic hormone Animal husbandry Animal Welfare Animals Bilirubin Biomarkers C-reactive protein Cholesterol Complement component C3 Cortisol Culling Disease Embryos Environment Experiments Female Females Fitness Hemorrhagic disease Hormones Immunology Infections Inflammation Inflammatory response involuntary culling rate Litter Size Livestock Lymphocytes Male Myxomatosis Neonates Neutrophils Parturition Phenotype Physiology Pregnancy Productivity Rabbits Rabbits - physiology Reproduction Research Article Resilience Software Stress Survival Triglycerides vaccination Vaccines Variability Welfare, Behaviour and Health Management inflammatory response involuntary culling rate cortisol C-reactive protein vaccination
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