How depressing is inbreeding? A meta-analysis of 30 years of research on the effects of inbreeding in livestock

HP Doekes, P Bijma, JJ Windig - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Inbreeding depression has been widely documented for livestock and other animal and
plant populations. Inbreeding is generally expected to have a stronger unfavorable effect on …

Assessment of identity disequilibrium and its relation to empirical heterozygosity fitness correlations: a meta‐analysis

JM Miller, DW Coltman - Molecular Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Heterozygosity fitness correlations (HFC s) have frequently been used to detect inbreeding
depression, under the assumption that genome‐wide heterozygosity is a good proxy for …

Inbreeding and runs of homozygosity: A possible solution to an old problem

I Curik, M Ferenčaković, J Sölkner - Livestock science, 2014 - Elsevier
Quantifying human, plant and livestock inbreeding has been an important goal of
evolutionary biologists and agricultural scientists for nearly a century, and methods to do so …

Understanding the relationship between the inbreeding coefficient and multilocus heterozygosity: theoretical expectations and empirical data

J Slate, P David, KG Dodds, BA Veenvliet, BC Glass… - Heredity, 2004 - nature.com
Geneticists have been interested in inbreeding and inbreeding depression since the time of
Darwin. Two alternative approaches that can be used to measure how inbred an individual …

Ассоциированность эритроцитарных антигенов с характеристиками спермы жеребцов после криоконсервирования

АВ Ткачёв, ОЛ Ткачёва, ВИ Россоха - Сельскохозяйственная …, 2018 - cyberleninka.ru
Криоконсервирование спермы животных важнейший способ сохранения исчезающих
пород и видов. В коневодстве России и Украины это направление имеет особую …

Цитогенетический статус кобыл (EQUUS CABALLUS) украинской верховой породы в связи с оплодотворяемостью

АВ Ткачёв, ОЛ Ткачёва, ВИ Россоха - Сельскохозяйственная …, 2018 - cyberleninka.ru
В странах с развитым коневодством цитогенетические исследования кобыл широко
применяются на практике (в случаях эмбриональной смертности в обязательном …

Population density and food conditions determine adult female body size in brown bears

A Zedrosser, B Dahle, JE Swenson - Journal of Mammalogy, 2006 - academic.oup.com
We investigated growth and determinants of adult female body size in brown bears (Ursus
arctos) in 2 study areas in Sweden. Scandinavian female brown bears reached 90% of their …

Genetic diversity in German draught horse breeds compared with a group of primitive, riding and wild horses by means of microsatellite DNA markers

KS Aberle, H Hamann, C Drögemüller… - Animal genetics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We compared the genetic diversity and distance among six German draught horse breeds to
wild (Przewalski's Horse), primitive (Icelandic Horse, Sorraia Horse, Exmoor Pony) or riding …

Assessment of inbreeding depression for body measurements in Spanish Purebred (Andalusian) horses

MD Gómez, M Valera, A Molina, JP Gutiérrez… - Livestock Science, 2009 - Elsevier
Our aim was to ascertain inbreeding depression in the Spanish Purebred horses for eight
body measurements. A total of 16,472 individuals were measured for height at withers …

Microsatellite diversity, population subdivision and gene flow in the Lipizzan horse

R Achmann, I Curik, P Dovc, T Kavar, I Bodo… - Animal …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Blood samples of 561 Lipizzan horses from subpopulations (studs) of seven European
countries representing a large fraction of the breed's population were used to examine the …