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Inbreeding depression and the probability of racing in the Thoroughbred horse

Small effective population sizes and active inbreeding can lead to inbreeding depression due to deleterious recessive mutations exposed in the homozygous state. The Thoroughbred racehorse has low levels of population genetic diversity, but the effects of genomic inbreeding in the population are unkn...

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Autores principales: Hill, Emmeline W., Stoffel, Martin A., McGivney, Beatrice A., MacHugh, David E., Pemberton, Josephine M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9240673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35765835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0487