Published March 28, 2018 | Version v1
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The effects of recent changes in breeding preferences on maintaining traditional Dutch chicken genomic diversity

  • 1. ABG, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

Description

A paper produced in the frame of the H2020 project 677353 'Innovative Management of Animal GEnetic resources'.*

It explores the consequences of breeding practices on the structure of genetic diversity in chickens, using 60K SNP genotyping data. It compares allelic diversity and genomic inbeeding between traditional breeds and commercial lines and provides a focus on the bantamisation process applied  by Dutch breeders.

Notes

The chicken breed associations and the Center for Genetic Resources are acknowledged for providing samples to this study.

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Funding

IMAGE – Innovative Management of Genetic Resources 677353
European Commission