[Methodological approach to genetic-selection analysis of social behavior of animals (Using as an example domestic behavior of the silver fox)].
Social behaviour of animals, i.e. interspecies contacts, were studied in a population of silver foxes in the longitudinal model domestication experiment. Three social behaviour traits were analysed: contactibility, critical distance and domestication index. The latter trait is a linear function of elementary behaviour reactions, postures induced by man which is determined by the principal components method. The most valiable selection phenotype for further modelling of domestication, as shown by the capacity to adequately reflect a pattern of genotype--environment interaction, the structure of correlation ratios for different forms of behaviour and the level of genetic relationships between relatives, is the domestication index.
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D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005589:Foxes / Q000235:genetics*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005838:Genotype; D008297:Male; D010641:Phenotype; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012919:Social Behavior
Metodologicheskiĭ podkhod k genetiko-selektsionnomu analizu sotsial'nogo povedeniia zhivotnykh. (Na primere domestikatsionnogo povedenii serebristo-cherhykh lisits).