Quantifying human, plant and livestock inbreeding has been an important goal of
evolutionary biologists and agricultural scientists for nearly a century, and methods to do so …

Computation of inbreeding rate (ΔF) must consider that inbreeding is delayed with one
generation with respect to the idealized population when addressed using individual …

Background Effective population sizes of 140 populations (including 60 dog breeds, 40
sheep breeds, 20 cattle breeds and 20 horse breeds) were computed using pedigree …

We introduce a simple method to estimate effective population size from increase in
coancestry (Δcjk) for all pairs of individuals j and k in a reference subpopulation. An increase …

Background The importance of local breeds as genetic reservoirs of valuable genetic
variation is well established. Pig breeding in Central and South-Eastern Europe has a long …

The extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) and effective population size in Finnish Landrace
and Finnish Yorkshire pig populations were studied using a whole genome SNP panel …

The objective of this study was to test the performance of a recently proposed methodology
for the estimation of realized effective size (Ne) based on individual increase in inbreeding …

Genomic selection in Lacaune dairy sheep was investigated based on genotypes from the
OvineSNP50 BeadChip (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA). Historical artificial insemination …

Rice genetic improvement is a key component of achieving and maintaining food security in
Asia and Africa in the face of growing populations and climate change. In this effort, the …

The aim of this study was to describe the population structure, inbreeding and to quantify
their effect for different weights, of Santa Inês sheep. For this reason, 6490 data of …