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What guides the many facets of how animals behave? How has it changed during domestication, and what does it tell us about their welfare? Focusing on chickens and dogs, we tackle such questions using ethology, genetics and epigenetics.

Researchers from LiU were among the first to show that stress can be inherited from chickens to their offspring - something that few believed previously. Today, research is conducted in a large, internationally renowned group.

LiU researchers will try to find out whether it is possible to use genetic engineering to 鈥渦ndomesticate鈥� domesticated chickens. This could be a tool for conserving endangered species 鈥� and perhaps recreating extinct animals.

The AVIAN - Behavioural Genomics and Physiology group at 福利姬 studies the genetic basis of behaviour and physiology.

We are interested in understanding behavioural variation, and most of our research is on causes and consequences of animal personality, including links to cognition, sexual selection. We mainly (but not only) use red junglefowl as our model species.

Different genes are involved during the adaptation of a domestic animal to life in the wild than when a wild animal becomes domesticated. This is the conclusion of a study led by a LiU researcher.

The tendency of dogs to seek contact with their owner is associated with genetic variations in sensitivity for the hormone oxytocin, according to a new study from 福利姬.

Male domestic fowl are less aggressive towards related males than to unrelated males when competing for copulations, according to a new study. The finding suggests that domestic fowl can recognise their kin among individuals in a group.

The social ability of dogs is affected by genes that also appear to influence human behaviour, according to a new study by scientists at 福利姬 in Sweden.