Factorial correspondence analysis of fear-related behaviour traits in Japanese quail

Mignon-Grasteau, Sandrine; Roussot, Odile; Delaby, Constance; Faure, Jean-Michel; Mills, Andrew; Leterrier, Christine; Guemene, Daniel D.; Constantin, P.; Mills, M. G. L.; Lepape, G; Beaumont, Catherine

doi:10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00162-6

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“…Altogether, these data indicate the fact that both genotypes are very sensitive to stress and are fearful, especially to human presence or handling, but express different response strategies. The non-significant correlations (data not shown) between behavioural and physiological parameters are in agreement with previously published results in duck or in quail (Mignon-Grasteau et al, 2003).…”

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“…Previous studies on responses to fear were realised in Japanese quails divergently selected for tonic immobility (TI) duration or sociability (Mills and Faure, 1991). Results have shown that the different behavioural and physiological stress indicators measured were only partially linked (Mignon-Grasteau et al, 2003;Hazard et al, 2008). Consequently, a variety of experimental tests must be used in order to take into account the multifactorial nature of stress response.…”

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Behavioural and physiological fear responses in ducks: genetic cross effects

Arnaud

Mignon-Grasteau²,

Larzul³

et al. 2008

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Mule duck, a cross between a Muscovy drake and a Pekin female, is reported by the farmers to frequently express fear behaviours, such as man avoidance. The genetic basis of fear responses in mule ducks was therefore investigated in this study. According to a previous experiment, the dominant effect of Pekin genotype was hypothesised; however, due to the absence of birds from the reciprocal cross, a superiority of the Pekin in additive effect could not be distinguished from a direct maternal additive effect. In order to clarify this, ducks from the mule genotype, the two parental genotypes (Pekin and Muscovy) and the reciprocal intercross (hinny) underwent a set of physiological and individual behavioural tests of fear. Both parental genotypes were highly fearful but exhibited responses of different patterns: Pekin ducks manifested a higher locomotor activity, whereas the Muscovy ducks showed a higher avoidance to man. Hybrids expressed higher panic responses and specific fear of man than the two parent breeds. Both hybrids expressed similar patterns and the maternal effects were not significant. Significant heterosis effects were found for most of the behavioural responses, in agreement with the fact that higher fear responses were expressed by the hybrids compared to the parental genotypes. A significant heterosis effect was also found for basal adrenal activity; hybrids having higher basal level than parental genotypes. Maximum capacity of adrenal response appeared to be determined by direct additive effects with a superiority of the Pekin genotype.

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confidence: 99%

Behavioural and physiological fear responses in ducks: genetic cross effects

Arnaud

Mignon-Grasteau²,

Larzul³

et al. 2008

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“…Thus, we conclude that EE impaired the effects of chronic stress on fearfulness in this test. The different effects of EE in the open field and in the emergence test highlight the multidimensional aspect of fear in quail as demonstrated by previous studies (Mignon-Grasteau et al, 2003). Amazon parrots in enriched environments approached a novel object quicker, but familiar handlers later, than did parrots in non-enriched environments, illustrating different motivation states towards different stimuli (Meehan and Mench, 2002).…”

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Environmental enrichment reduces behavioural alterations induced by chronic stress in Japanese quail

Laurence

Houdelier

Calandreau

et al. 2015

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Animals perceiving repeated aversive events can become chronically stressed. Chronic activation of the hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal (HPA) axis can have deleterious consequences on physiological parameters (e.g. BW, blood chemistry) and behaviour (e.g. emotional reactivity, stereotypies, cognition). Environmental enrichment (EE) can be a mean to reduce animal stress and to improve welfare. The aim of this study was first, to assess the effects of EE in battery cages on the behaviour of young Japanese quail and second, to evaluate the impact of EE on quail exposed to chronic stress. The experiment involved quail housed in EE cages and submitted or not to a chronic stress procedure (CSP) (EE cages, control quail: n = 16, CSP quail: n = 14) and quail housed in standard cages and exposed or not to the CSP (standard non-EE cages, control quail: n = 12, CSP quail: n = 16). Our procedure consisted of repeated aversive events (e.g. ventilators, delaying access to food, physical restraint, noise) presented two to five times per 24 h, randomly, for 15 days. During CSP, EE improved quail's welfare as their stereotypic pacing decreased and they rested more. CSP decreased exploration in all quail. After the end of CSP, quail presented increased emotional reactivity in emergence test. However, the effect of EE varied with test. Finally, chronic stress effects on comfort behaviours in the emergence test were alleviated by EE. These results indicate that EE can alleviate some aspects of behavioural alterations induced by CSP.

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“…This indicates a low correlation between general fear and TI. Interestingly, there are other studies pointing in the same direction (Mignon-Grasteau et al 2003;Schütz et al 2004) i.e., that TI is differentiated from general fear. TI is probably a defense reaction to a predator attack and perhaps our selection trait, fear of humans as predators, would come out as different from general fear as well.…”

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Early domestication? : Phenotypic alterations of Red Junglefowl selected for divergent fear of humans

Agnvall¹

2016

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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Till min Pärla och min Skatt, tack för att ni gör mitt liv så mycket mer, av allt. Älskar er till månen och tillbaka Foto Kenneth DanielssonAbstract Domestication is the process through which animals adapt to conditions provided by humans. The domesticated phenotype differs from wild ancestors in a number of traits relating to physiology, morphology and behaviour. One of the most striking differences is the animals' fear response towards humans, and reduced fear of humans is assumed to have been an early prerequisite for the success of domestication. The early alterations seen in the domesticated phenotype may be traits developed as a correlated selection response due to tameness rather than selected upon one by one.This thesis summarizes a project where Red Junglefowl were selected for divergent fear of humans during six generations. In every generation, fear response to human was assessed in a standardized test and, according to fear score, the animals were bred for either high fear of humans (H) or low fear of humans (L). The animals were, above that of the standardized selection test, behaviourally phenotyped in different tests in each generation mainly focusing on fear, exploration and social behaviour. In addition to behaviour, the animals were phenotyped for body weight, egg weight, metabolism, feed intake, plumage condition, blood plasma corticosterone and peripheral serotonin. After culling, vital organs and brains were harvested and weighed.In paper I, we demonstrated that the selection trait has a significant genetic heritability and is genetically correlated with other behavioural responses associated with fearfulness and exploration. In paper II, we concluded that animals from the L strain had better plumage condition, higher weight, laid larger eggs and also generated larger offspring. Furthermore, when tested in a social dominance test with a limited resource, they received less and performed more aggression regardless of whether the restricted source was edible or not. In paper III, we revealed that animals from the L strain had higher basal metabolic rate as chicks, gained more weight in relation to feed intake and were bolder in a Novel Object test. Furthermore, the L males had higher plasma levels of peripheral serotonin, but the corticosterone after a restraint stress test did not differ. In paper IV and V, we concluded the project by comparing brain and organ weights as well as behaviour of the parental generation (P0) with the fifth selected generation (S5). The absolute brain weight as well as the weight specific brain weight were larger in the animals selected on H than in the L-animals. The relative weight of telencephalon was significantly higher in H whereas relative weight of cerebellum was significantly lower. Heart, liver, spleen and testes were all relatively heavier in H animals than in L. Interestingly, the behaviours assessed in P0 and S5 seemed to be rather resilient to the selection with only small differences in S5.To summarize, the selection on divergent tameness in Red Jung...

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Factorial correspondence analysis of fear-related behaviour traits in Japanese quail

Cited by 41 publications

References 18 publications

Behavioural and physiological fear responses in ducks: genetic cross effects

Behavioural and physiological fear responses in ducks: genetic cross effects

Environmental enrichment reduces behavioural alterations induced by chronic stress in Japanese quail

Early domestication? : Phenotypic alterations of Red Junglefowl selected for divergent fear of humans

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