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The effects of recent changes in breeding preferences on maintaining traditional Dutch chicken genomic diversity.
Heredity - 1 Dec 2018
Bortoluzzi Chiara, Crooijmans Richard P M A, Bosse Mirte, Hiemstra Sipke Joost, Groenen Martien A M, Megens Hendrik-Jan
Abstract excerpt
Traditional Dutch chicken breeds are marginalised breeds of ornamental and cultural-historical importance. In the last decades, miniaturising of existing breeds (so called neo-bantam) has become popular and resulted in alternatives to original large breeds. However, while backcrossing is increasing the neo-bantams homozygosity, genetic exchange between breeders may increase their genetic diversity. We use the...
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