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The contribution of dominance and inbreeding depression in estimating variance components for litter size in Pannon White rabbits.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Aug 2013
Nagy I, Gorjanc G, Curik I, Farkas J, Kiszlinger H, Szendrő Zs
Abstract excerpt
In a synthetic closed population of Pannon White rabbits, additive (VA ), dominance (VD ) and permanent environmental (VPe ) variance components as well as doe (bF d ) and litter (bF l ) inbreeding depression were estimated for the number of kits born alive (NBA), number of kits born dead (NBD) and total number of kits born (TNB). The data set consisted of 18,398 kindling records of 3883 does collected from 1992...
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