The Quagga project: progress over 20 years of selective breeding
The Quagga project: progress over 20 years of selective breeding
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10.3957/056.039.0206
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2009-10-01
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Gregor, Michael
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作者：
Harley, Eric H.;Knight, Michael H.;Gregor, Michael
斑驴项目已经进行了20多年。其目的是，鉴于确凿的分子证据表明，斑驴和平原斑马，马斑驴，是同种的，是检索斑驴的皮毛特征的选择性育种从一个选定的面板平原斑马个人。该计划现在已经有超过25个第三代后代，并开始产生具有一定程度条纹减少的个体，这些个体的条纹减少程度是原始创始人都没有的，并且近似于至少一些已知的斑驴博物馆标本所显示的条纹模式。这些结果表明，到第四代，该项目应该在很大程度上成功地实现了其目标，并将形成一群个体的基础，这些个体可以在西开普省展示，作为从现存的平原斑马种群中消失的表型的例证。
The quagga project has now been in progress for over 20 years. Its aim, given conclusive molecular evidence that the quagga and the plains zebra, Equus quagga, are conspecific, is the retrieval of the pelage characteristics of the quagga by selective breeding from a selected panel of plains zebra individuals. The programme has now over 25 third generation progeny, and is starting to produce individuals with a degree of striping reduction shown by none of the original founders and which approximate the striping pattern shown by at least some of the known museum specimens of quagga. These results indicate that by the fourth generation the project should have largely succeeded in its aim, and will form the basis of a herd of individuals which can be displayed in the Western Cape as an illustration of a phenotype which had disappeared from extant populations of plains zebra.