Effective population sizes in cattle, sheep, horses, pigs and goats estimated from census and herdbook data
Accurate measures of effective population sizes (Ne) in livestock require good quality data and specialized skills for their computation and analysis. Ne can be estimated by Wright’s equation Ne=4MF/(M+ F) (M, F being sires and dams, respectively), but this requires assumptions which are often not m...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Animal |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751731116000914 |