Genetic correlated responses to selection for resilience in key inflammatory and stress biomarkers under heat stress of rabbits

Heat stress is a major challenge for rabbit production, due to the species’ limited thermoregulatory capacity. Two rabbit lines were divergently selected over 17 generations for environmental variance in litter size: the Low line, with greater resilience, and the High line, with less resilience. Thi...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Animal Science
Main Authors:	Daniel Serrano-Jara, Iván Agea, Gema Romero, María José Argente, María Antonia Santacreu, María de la Luz García
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-10-01
Subjects:	resilience heat stress infra-red thermography litter size variability stress biomarkers CRP
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fanim.2025.1694508/full