Demographic, Genealogical and morphological characterization of Pantelleria donkey

2004

A demographic, genetic and morphologi­cal evaluation on Pantelleria donkey's population was carried out to give a con­tribution for the exploitation of this old donkey breed. Genealogical data were analysed by the software Minbreed v 1.0. Pedigree is com­posed by 4 generations. The inbreeding of the population (Fwhole population = 0.4 %) resulted very low than the expectations; therefore, the inbreeding coefficients resul­ted low in the males F male, = 0.9 % and in the females Ffemale = 0.0 %. On the other hand, the mean relationship among the 378 couplings resulted very high a1j = 15,1 %. The morphological study was carried out on 20 subjects. For each animal the most important morphologic…

Phenotypic and genetic analysis of udder health using SCC in Valle del Belice dairy sheep

2005

La messinese una risorsa autoctona tutta siciliana

2005

Demographic characterization and genetic variability of the Oriental Pure Horse, reared in Sicily, by genealogical data analysis

2008