Genetic diversity in an indigenous horse breed - implications for mating strategies and the control of future inbreeding

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 394-406

  Hasler, H ^a   Flury, C ^a   Menet, S ^b   Haase, B ^c   Leeb, T ^c   Simianer, H ^d   Poncet, P A ^e   Rieder, Stefan ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b ProSpecieRara   (Switzerland)

^c VETSUISSE FACULTY UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e Swiss National Stud Farm   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Effective population size; Genetic diversity; In breeding avoidance; Local horse breed; Mating strategies; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HORSE; INBREEDING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PEDIGREE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HORSES; INBREEDING; MALE; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 80052662754     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: 14390388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2011.00932.x     Document Type: Article

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