Genetic stability in the Icelandic horse breed
Summary Despite the Icelandic horse enjoying great popularity worldwide, the breed’s gene pool is small. This is because of a millennium of isolation on Iceland, population crashes caused by natural disasters and selective breeding. Populations with small effective population sizes are considered to...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1365-2052.2011.02266.x 2024-06-23T07:53:59+00:00 Genetic stability in the Icelandic horse breed Campana, M. G. Stock, F. Barrett, E. Benecke, N. Barker, G. W. W. Seetah, K. Bower, M. A. 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2011.02266.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-2052.2011.02266.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2011.02266.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Animal Genetics volume 43, issue 4, page 447-449 ISSN 0268-9146 1365-2052 journal-article 2011 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2011.02266.x 2024-06-11T04:48:15Z Summary Despite the Icelandic horse enjoying great popularity worldwide, the breed’s gene pool is small. This is because of a millennium of isolation on Iceland, population crashes caused by natural disasters and selective breeding. Populations with small effective population sizes are considered to be more at risk of selection pressures such as disease and environmental change. By analysing historic and modern mitochondrial DNA sequences and nuclear coat colour genes, we examined real‐time population dynamics in the Icelandic horse over the last 150 years. Despite the small gene pool of this breed, we found that the effective population size and genetic profile of the Icelandic horse have remained stable over the studied time period. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Wiley Online Library Animal Genetics 43 4 447 449 |
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Summary Despite the Icelandic horse enjoying great popularity worldwide, the breed’s gene pool is small. This is because of a millennium of isolation on Iceland, population crashes caused by natural disasters and selective breeding. Populations with small effective population sizes are considered to be more at risk of selection pressures such as disease and environmental change. By analysing historic and modern mitochondrial DNA sequences and nuclear coat colour genes, we examined real‐time population dynamics in the Icelandic horse over the last 150 years. Despite the small gene pool of this breed, we found that the effective population size and genetic profile of the Icelandic horse have remained stable over the studied time period. |
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Campana, M. G. Stock, F. Barrett, E. Benecke, N. Barker, G. W. W. Seetah, K. Bower, M. A. |
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Campana, M. G. Stock, F. Barrett, E. Benecke, N. Barker, G. W. W. Seetah, K. Bower, M. A. Genetic stability in the Icelandic horse breed |
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Campana, M. G. Stock, F. Barrett, E. Benecke, N. Barker, G. W. W. Seetah, K. Bower, M. A. |
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Genetic stability in the Icelandic horse breed |
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Genetic stability in the Icelandic horse breed |
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Genetic stability in the Icelandic horse breed |
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Genetic stability in the Icelandic horse breed |
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Genetic stability in the Icelandic horse breed |
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genetic stability in the icelandic horse breed |
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