Heritability of morphological and behavioural traits in evolving robots

Heritability in the Era of Molecular Genetics: Some Thoughts for Understanding Genetic Influences on Behavioural Traits

Copy Abstract: Genetic influences on behavioural traits are ubiquitous. When behaviourism was the dominant paradigm in psychology, demonstrations of heritability of behavioural and psychological constructs provided important evidence of its limitations. Now that genetic influences on behavioural traits are generally accepted, we need to recognise the limitations of heritability as an indicator ...

Morphological evolution and heritability estimates for some biometric traits in the Murgese horse breed.

A data set concerning 1,816 subjects entered in the Italian Horse Registry from 1925 to 2002 was analyzed to investigate the morphological evolution of the Murgese horse and to obtain useful elements to enhance breeding practices. Three basic body measurements (height at withers, chest girth, and cannon bone circumference) were considered for each subject. Heritabilities were calculated for eac...

Heritability of eeG/erP traitS

the heritability of yield and morphological traits of clones satureja rechingeri jamzad

satureja rechingeri, belonging to the family lamiaceae, has been recently used in the pharmaceutical industry due to its high level of carvacrol in the essential oil. the domestication and breeding of suitable s. rechingeri variety has been started since few years ago in iran. the initial screening of natural populations, grown in the same environment, was performed and 58 talent clones were se...

Heritability of eeG/erP traitS

 The core mission of this dissertation was to examine the genetic architecture of selected EEG and ERP measures that may index important individual differences in brain structure and function. To do so, data were used from an extensive 2.5-hour EEG recording session in a sample of 263 MZ, 303 DZ twins and 195 of their singleton siblings from two age cohorts, one with an average age of about ...