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A genome-wide association study of mare fertility in the Pura Raza Español horse.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Mar 2022
Laseca N, Demyda-Peyrás S, Valera M, Ramón M, Escribano B, Perdomo-González D I, Molina A
Abstract excerpt
Despite the economic importance of fertility for the horse industry, few efforts have been made to achieve a better understanding of the genetic mechanisms underlying its control. This is probably due to the difficulty of obtaining reliable phenotypes and the complexity of modelling the environmental and management factors. This work is novel in that we propose to use reproductive efficiency (RE) as an indicator...
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