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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2020
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| 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 |