the effect of inbreeding on racing performance in norwegian cold-blooded trotters近亲繁殖的影响在挪威冷血快马赛车的性能.pdfVIP

Original article The effect of inbreeding on racing performance in Norwegian cold-blooded trotters Gunnar Klemetsdal Department of Animal Science, Agricultural University of Norway, Box 5025, 1432 Aas-NLH, Norway (Received 28 November 1997; accepted 8 June 1998) 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 a time, 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 over age-classes 3, 3-4, 3-5 and 3-6 years of age, were analysed. Only performances for horses born from 1972 onwards were used. For each animal, five inbreeding variables were calculated utilising ancestors for two (F2), three (F3), four (F4) and five (F5) generations or all available pedigree information (FTOT).Number of records used in analyses of ATSE3, ATSE3-4, ATSE3-5 and ATSE3-6 were 7 866, 7 866, 6 825 and 5 907, respectively. The estimated regressions, transformed to the standardised normal scale, were negative showing that racing performance was depressed by inbreeding. The best fit was for curvilinear regression. The pattern made up by the estimated regression coefficients indicated that selection was able to arrest some inbreeding de- pression over the first four generations, most likely due to recessive mutations, while additional purging of assumed mildly recessive mutations was shown to be a slower Paris process. copy; Inra/Elsevier, horse/ inbreeding depression/ selection Résumé - Effet de la consanguinité sur les performance