Kinship-based management strategies for captive breeding programs when pedigrees are unknown or uncertain

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 303-311

  Putnam, Andrea S ^a,b   Ivy, Jamie A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Division of Conservation and Education   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Captive breeding; genetic diversity; inbreeding; oryx; relatedness

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; BREEDING METHOD; CAPTIVE BREEDING PROGRAM; DEMOGRAPHY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBREEDING; NONHUMAN; ORYX LEUCORYX; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCERTAINTY; BREEDING; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NORTH AMERICAN; PARENT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FAMILY; GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; BREEDING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FAMILY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; INBREEDING; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE;

EID: 84898978629     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/est068     Document Type: Article

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