Indigenous sheep play an important role in the livelihoods of communal farmers in the
Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), and this underlines the need to curb the …

South African indigenous breeds' population is decreasing at a time when their genetic
material is mandatory due to the rising climate change and global warming. South African …

Background Population history, production system and within-breed selection pressure
impacts the genome architecture resulting in reduced genetic diversity and increased …

Simple Summary The degree of relationship among livestock breeds can be quantified by
the Fst statistic, which measures the extent of genetic differentiation between them. An Fst …

Traditional domestic breeds of domestic animals are part of the “living” wealth of the world,
part of the disappearing biodiversity and a valuable local gene pool. Nowadays, they are …

Knowledge of population structure is essential to improve the management and
conservation of farm animal genetic resources. Microsatellites, which have long been …

Cultural practices in the African continent have been thought to impact negatively on body
donation. Thus, most African countries continue to rely on unclaimed bodies for dissection …

Merino sheep are a breed of choice across the world, popularly kept for their wool and
mutton value. They are often reared as a pure breed or used in crossbreeding and are a …

South African native chicken breeds are no exception to the declining of local domestic
breeds that has long been recognised and found associated with the commercialisation of …

Molecular data analyzed by accurate statistical approaches not only have the potential to
investigate demographic events faced in the past, eg, migration, but they also offer …