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Competitiveness of Spanish Local Breeds [PDF]

Animals, 2022
Spain is among the countries with the greatest diversity of local breeds, as a result of an extensive and heterogeneous cultural and agroecological heritage [...]
José Perea, Ramón Arias
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Lipid Deposition and Metabolism in Local and Modern Pig Breeds: A Review

Animals, 2020
Modern pig breeds, which have been genetically improved to achieve fast growth and a lean meat deposition, differ from local pig breeds with respect to fat deposition, fat specific metabolic characteristics and various other properties.
Klavdija Poklukar, Marjeta Čandek-Potokar, Nina Batorek Lukač, Urška Tomažin, Martin Škrlep   +4 more
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Selection Signatures from RAD-Seq Reveal Candidate Genomic Regions Potentially Underlying Immune and Adaptive Traits in Southwest Chinese Local Chickens [PDF]

Animals
Southwestern local chicken breeds in China have long been recognized for their strong adaptability and disease resistance, shaped by unique selective pressures during domestication.
Mengyu Wang, Mingyang Zou, Chenghao Zhou, Wei Han   +3 more
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An Overview of the Use of Genotyping Techniques for Assessing Genetic Diversity in Local Farm Animal Breeds

Animals, 2021
Globally, many local farm animal breeds are threatened with extinction. However, these breeds contribute to the high amount of genetic diversity required to combat unforeseen future challenges of livestock production systems. To assess genetic diversity,
Anna Olschewsky, Dirk Hinrichs
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Breeding Motives and Attitudes Towards Stakeholders: Implications for the Sustainability of Local Croatian Breeds

Agriculture
Understanding how breeders of local breeds view different social actors can be of great importance to the process of local breed conservation. The same goes for the motives in farming local breeds.
Marija Cerjak, Ivica Faletar, Gabriela Šmit, Ante Ivanković   +3 more
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Modelling Nutritional Requirements of Growing Pigs from Local Breeds Using InraPorc. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2019
Brossard L, Nieto R, Charneca R, Araujo JP, Pugliese C, Radović Č, Čandek-Potokar M.   +6 more
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Review of Sheep and Goat Research and Development in Egypt Since the Forties: II-Phenotypic Characteristics, Production, and Reproduction Performance of Local Sheep Breeds [PDF]

Journal of Animal and Poultry Production, 2023
Egyptian local sheep breeds are widely spread over the country; raised mainly by   smallholders and contribute significantly to their livelihood. Local breeds are well adapted to the prevailing hot dry conditions, and limited feed resources. They are fat-
A. Aboulnaga, T. Abdelsabour
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Local breeds and pastoral farming on the North Mediterranean shore: a univocal coevolution? An example of dairy sheep farming systems in Corsica (France) and Thessaly (Greece)

Genetic Resources, 2021
Using local resources for ruminant feeding is a way to achieve agroecological production in pastoral farming systems. In North Mediterranean countries, sheep farming systems have evolved towards more intensive systems in lowland and hilly areas, whereas
Lola Perucho, Ioannis Hadjigeorgiou, Anne Lauvie, Charles-Henri Moulin, Jean-Christophe Paoli, Christina Ligda   +5 more
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A Search for Eurasian Sheep Relationships: Genomic Assessment of the Autochthonous Sheep Breeds in Russia and the Persian Plateau

Diversity, 2022
Genomic assessment of local sheep breeds is relevant to the reconstruction of post-domestication migrations and to filling in gaps in the developmental history and contemporary phylogeographic-differentiation patterns in Eurasia.
Tatiana Deniskova, Ali Esmailizadeh, Arsen Dotsev, Olga Koshkina, Mohammad Ali Farahvashi, Mortaza Mokhtari, Mozhdeh Moosanezhad Khabisi, Feng-Hua Lv, Natalia Zinovieva   +8 more
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Farmers using local livestock biodiversity share more than animal genetic resources: Indications from a workshop with farmers who use local breeds

Genetic Resources, 2022
Recognizing the products from farms that use local breeds is key to in situ conservation of local animal biodiversity. Recognition often focuses on a small number of specific breeds or products but could be expanded to include multiple local breeds and ...
Anne Lauvie, Nathalie Couix, Jean-Michel Sorba   +2 more
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