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Selective breeding occurs when individual animals with specific behavioral (or anatomical or physiologic) traits are bred with animals with similar characteristics. The traits selected are extremes (such as high responders or low responders in a specified task) and are determined by some criterion of deviation from the group mean (e.g., behaviors that are two standard deviations above or below the mean).
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(2015). Selective Breeding. In: Stolerman, I.P., Price, L.H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36172-2_200208
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