SUMMARY A review of the main production (dirty fleece weight and fineness) and
technological traits (coefficient of variation of fineness, spinning finennes, curvature index …

More than one million smallholders in the Andean region of central South America exploit
alpacas (Vicugna pacos) and lamas (Lama glama) as their main means of subsistence …

Alpacas and llamas play an important role in the livelihood of many rural families in the High
Andes of Peru. The census of 2012 indicates a population of 3 million alpacas and 746,269 …

Alpacas play an important role in Andean agriculture in Peru as a source of income for about
82,000 families. Although there are various national laws regulating alpaca keeping and …

The aim of this research was to estimate for the first time the heritability and genetic
relationship between medullation and fiber diameter in each fiber by itself. A total of 21,600 …

The alpaca fiber diameter (FD) varies from 18 to 36 μm, being the finer fiber categories
highly appreciated. However, the alpaca fiber presents some limitations in the textile …

Simple Summary Alpaca breeding takes place in the most entrenched areas of the Andes,
where the conditions to implement genetic improvement programs are very difficult …

Four fibre traits (fibre diameter, FD; coefficient of variation of FD, comfort factor; and standard
deviation of FD) were jointly analysed with six subjectively scored type traits (fleece density …

Pacomarca is an experimental ranch founded by the INCA group to act as a selection
nucleus from which basic genetic improvement of alpaca fibre can spread throughout the …

The objective of this study was to analyze the thickness and medullation characteristics of
the wool of a herd of Huacaya alpacas kept in Poland. Wool samples were collected from 36 …