Researches Regarding the Existence of Phenotypic Correlations between Different Body Measurements at Males from Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog

Authors

  • Dorel Dronca Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" from Timisoara, Calea Aradului nr.119, postal code 300645, Romania
  • Nicolae Păcală Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" from Timisoara, Calea Aradului nr.119, postal code 300645, Romania
  • Ioan Bencsik Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" from Timisoara, Calea Aradului nr.119, postal code 300645, Romania
  • Marian Bura Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" from Timisoara, Calea Aradului nr.119, postal code 300645, Romania
  • Eliza Simiz Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" from Timisoara, Calea Aradului nr.119, postal code 300645, Romania
  • Ada Cean Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" from Timisoara, Calea Aradului nr.119, postal code 300645, Romania
  • Adela Marcu Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael I of Romania" from Timisoara, Calea Aradului nr.119, postal code 300645, Romania
  • Vasile Cighi Faculty of Animal Sciences and Biotechnologies Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • Alexandru Dronca West University of Timisoara, Romania

Keywords:

phonotypical correlation, characteristics, body measurements

Abstract

Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog was selected from a natural population breed in Carpathian Mountains. The aim of this paper was to estimate the correlation coefficients between 6 characteristics, using 26 males from Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog breed. The animals were registered with the Romanian Mioritic Association Club from Romania. Following the analysis of the phenotypic correlation, we identified some strong positive correlations between the length of the head and the length of the scull, and between the length of the head and the length of the snout. The correlations between the others characters were weak positive and weak negative.

References

Dronca, D., Genetic amelioration of animal population. Editura Mirton, 2007.

Bura, M., Dronca, D., Cioroboreanu, D., Simiz E., Program for genetic improvement of the dogs effective of Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog breed from Romanian Mioritic Association Club, Ed.Mirton, Timisoara, 2013.

xxx- Regulations for selection in order to grant the breeding right for the dogs belonging to Romanian breeds;

xxx- Standard FCI nr. 349/13.07.2005: Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog.

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Published

2023-09-05

Issue

Vol. 47 No. 1 (2014): Scientific Papers: Animal Science and Biotechnologies

Section

Animal Improvement

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