Livestock keepers in southwestern Burkina Faso hold the local Lobi taurine breed, Zebu cattle, and their crosses. Some communities region have begun to implement community-based cattle breeding programs (CBBPs), which involve animal tagging recording and, potentially, also bull sharing. Based on hypothesis that participation of livestock CBBPs depends attitudes towards these programs, we used q...

The expected change in fitness under inbreeding due to deleterious recessive alleles depends on the amount of load harbored by a population, that is, mutations concealed heterozygous state, and opposing effect genetic purging remove such load. This can be thus predicted if an estimate coefficient (the parameter quantifies purging) are available. These two parameters estimated pedigreed populati...

The past three decades have seen considerable research into the molecular genetics and genomics of forest trees, a variety new tools methods emerged that could practical applications in applied breeding programs. Applied breeders may lack specialized knowledge required to evaluate claims made about advantages over existing practices are faced with challenge deciding whether invest approaches or...