Chick's Response to an Imprinting Stimulus: Heterosis and Evolution
- 19 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 160 (3825), 329-330
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.160.3825.329
Abstract
Tendencies of day-old chicks to respond toward, to approach, and to stay near a distant audiovisulal imprinting apparatus were shown to be inherited in a heterotic manner. High correlations found among the traits suggest that these behavioral responses are not independent but sequential. The fitness value of such a behavioral sequence is explained in terms of imprinting.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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