Sèyi Fridaïus Ulrich Vanvanhossou, Carsten Scheper, Luc Hippolyte Dossa, Tong Yin, Kerstin Brügemann, Sven König
BACKGROUND: Specific adaptive features including disease resistance and growth abilities in harsh environments are attributed to indigenous cattle breeds of Benin, but these breeds are endangered due to crossbreeding. So far, there is a lack of systematic trait recording, being the basis for breed characterizations, and for structured breeding program designs aiming on conservation. Bridging this gap, own phenotyping for morphological traits considered measurements for height at withers (HAW), sacrum height (SH), heart girth (HG), hip width (HW), body length (BL) and ear length (EL), including 449 cattle from the four indigenous Benin breeds Lagune, Somba, Borgou and Pabli...
November 11, 2020: BMC Genomics