Management of genetic defects in breeding programs of species with high prolificacy.

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Advances in animal breeding have improved productivity but have led to concerns like reduced genetic diversity and the augmentation of the frequency of genetic defects. This increase of the frequency of genetic defects can be attributed to a hitchhiking effect or to genetic drift in populations with small effective population size. The aim of this study was to compare strict culling of carriers of a genetic...

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