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Breeding Value Estimation Based on Morphological Evaluation of the Maremmano Horse Population through Factor Analysis

  • Andrea Giontella,
  • Maurizio Silvestrelli,
  • Alessandro Cocciolone,
  • Camillo Pieramati and
  • Francesca Maria Sarti

31 July 2024

Morphological scoring is a common evaluation method for domestic animals. The National Association of Maremmano Breeders (ANAM) has provided a dataset containing the records of 600 horses, four metric measurements (cm) and 24 traits with a continuous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Equine Genetics and Breeding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,220 Views
11 Pages

Mitochondrial DNA Survey Reveals the Lack of Accuracy in Maremmano Horse Studbook Records

  • Andrea Giontella,
  • Irene Cardinali,
  • Hovirag Lancioni,
  • Samira Giovannini and ,
  • Camillo Pieramati,
  • Maurizio Silvestrelli and
  • Francesca Maria Sarti
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12 May 2020

The Maremmano horse is considered one of the most important Italian warmblood breeds which originated from an ancient population. In 1980, the National Association of Maremmano Breeders established the first Studbook that recorded 440 dams and four s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Horse Breeding and Genetics)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,957 Views
9 Pages

Y-Chromosome Haplotype Report among Eight Italian Horse Breeds

  • Andrea Giontella,
  • Irene Cardinali,
  • Francesca Maria Sarti,
  • Maurizio Silvestrelli and
  • Hovirag Lancioni

9 August 2023

Horse domestication and breed selection processes have profoundly influenced the development and transformation of human society and civilization over time. Therefore, their origin and history have always attracted much attention. In Italy, several l...

(This article belongs to the Section Animal Genetics and Genomics)