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Pedigree analysis of an ostrich breeding flock

  • 2012
  • Issue: 2
  • Volume: 42
M.D. Fair, J.B. van Wyk & S.W.P Cloete Page: 114 - 122

Pedigree records, maintained from 1978 to 2005 at the Oudtshoorn Research Farm, South Africa, of 40 074 birds of a pair-breeding ostrich flock were used to estimate the effective number of founders (fe), the effective number of ancestors (fa), the…

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