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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
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Critical Issues
in Pigeon Breeding Part V
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Critical Issues in Pigeon Breeding
Part VI
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