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Phenotypic and genetic analysis of reproductive traits in horse populations with different breeding purposes.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jul 2020
Gómez M D, Sánchez M J, Bartolomé E, Cervantes I, Poyato-Bonilla J, Demyda-Peyrás S, Valera M
Abstract excerpt
Reproductive traits have a major influence on the economic effectiveness of horse breeding. However, there is little information available. We evaluated the use of reproductive traits as selection criteria in official breeding programs to increase the reproductive efficiency of breeding studs, analysing 696 690 records from the pedigree data of eight Spanish horse populations, with different breeding purposes....
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