Studying the genetic consequences of captive breeding through studbook analysis. Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Dierkunde van Antwerpen
An important topic in conserving sustainable ex-situ breeding populations is minimising the loss of genetic diversity. Minimising mean kinship based on species-specific studbooks (and more specifically the included pedigree information) is one of the main instrument to attain this goal. Besides pedigree information, many studbooks hold extra information on the individual level (e.g. general life-history, weights and seizes, husbandry and ...