Article
Selection in the Finnhorse, a native all-around horse breed.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 Mar 2021
Kvist Laura, Honka Johanna, Niskanen Markku, Liedes Oona, Aspi Jouni
Abstract excerpt
Selection by breeders modifies the morphology, behaviour and performance of domesticated species. Here, we examined signs of selection in Finnhorse, the only native horse breed in Finland. We first searched divergent genomic regions between Finnhorses and other breeds, as well as between different breeding sections of the Finnhorse with data from Illumina Equine SNP70 BeadChip, and then studied several of the...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Finland
- Genome
- Genomics
- Horses
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
