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Critical Issues in Pigeon Breeding
What we know and what we believe to know

 

The now published parts conclude a series of short essays on facts and fakes in pigeon breeding. Questions that have been controversially discussed in recent years were taken up. It is about heredity, about the importance of genetic insight for standards, about historical roots of pigeon breeds and about recent molecular genetic investigations of individual traits. It is not only in the latter case that possible misunderstandings and pitfalls in research approaches are highlighted. The brief look at known and newly discovered inheritance mechanisms can be helpful in explaining surprising results in one's own breeding. It can mean the start of systematic breeding planning.  The scheme of sex-linked inheritance, for example, was first discovered in butterflies. Shortly thereafter it became the key to explaining inheritance in base colours, in dilution, in stippers and auto-sexing. Correlation and linkage analyses can sharpen the eye for errors in experimental design in genetic analyses. The identification of previously underestimated interactions between modifiers should at least urge caution when interpreting the results of test pairings.

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Critical Issues in Pigeon Breeding Part IV

Critical Issues in Pigeon Breeding Part V

 
 

Critical Issues in Pigeon Breeding Part VI

   

 

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