Phenotypic diversity of Tuscany’s endangered sheep breeds: a descriptive approach

Abstract

One of the most important problems concerning the conservation of animal biodiversity lies in the scarcity of funds that can be used for safeguard plans and in the lack of information available on the many threatened populations. Therefore, it is necessary to detect the populations that possess the highest amount of genetic variability. To achieve this objective it is essential to carry out a morphologic characterisation of the populations...