The effects of inbreeding on covering success, gestation length and foal sex ratio in Australian thoroughbred horses

BACKGROUND: Horses produce only one foal from an eleven-month gestation period, making the maintenance of high reproductive rates essential. Genetic bottlenecks and inbreeding can increase the frequency of deleterious variants, resulting in reduced reproductive levels in a population. In this study...

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Autores principales: Todd, Evelyn T., Hamilton, Natasha A., Velie, Brandon D., Thomson, Peter C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7140579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32268877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-00847-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7140579/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32268877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-00847-1

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