The effect of inbreeding on racing performance in Norwegian cold-blooded trotters 英文参考文献.docVIP

Department of Animal Science, Agricultural University of Norway, Box 5025, 1432 Aas-NLH, Norway Abstract - The effect of inbreeding, i.e. the inbreeding coefficient, on racing perfor- mance, as measured by accumulated, transformed and standardised earnings (ATSE), was estimated either by linear or curvilinear regression, one variable at atime, in uni- variate animal models. The statistical model included, in addition, the effects of sex and birth year. Four ATSE variables, with information on earnings summed up of age, were analysed. Only performances for horses born from 1972 onwards wer