La importancia de los caracteres del vellón como definidor racial. Un caso-estudio

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Parés Casanova, Pere-Miquel;
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(2009)
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La importancia de los caracteres del vellón como definidor racial. Un caso-estudio.
REDVET: Revista Electrónica de Veterinaria, 2009, vol. X, núm. 11, p. 1-6.
http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/48161.
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To evaluate which are the best discriminant variables to distinguish ovine breeds, phenetic relationships among eight turkish and one french breeds or types were studied. A matrix of 7 morphological and 4 wool characters were analyzed by a K-means test. Results suggest that four fleece traits alone<br>total wool weight, staple length, fiber diameter and percentage of medullated fibers- permit a glimpse of differentiation among sheep breeds.