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Assessing the relative importance of health and conformation traits in the cavalier king Charles spaniel

BACKGROUND: The selection of a future breeding dog is a complicated task, in which disease characteristics and different traits have to be combined and weighed against one another. Truncation selection, that is the exclusion of affected animals, may be very inefficient when selecting on a large numb...

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Autores principales: Wijnrocx, Katrien, François, Liesbeth, Goos, Peter, Buys, Nadine, Janssens, Steven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5778675/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29403647
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40575-017-0056-2