Confronting pastoralists’ knowledge of cattle breeds raised in the extensive production systems of Benin with multivariate analyses of morphological traits

• Sandrine O. Houessou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandrine O. Houessou, Luc Hippolyte Dossa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ecole des Sciences et Techniques de Production Animale, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey- Calavi, Bénin

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• Luc Hippolyte Dossa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sandrine O. Houessou, Luc Hippolyte Dossa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hippolyte.dossa@fsa.uac.bj

  Affiliation Ecole des Sciences et Techniques de Production Animale, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey- Calavi, Bénin

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1436-0667

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• Rodrigue Vivien Cao Diogo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Département des Sciences et Techniques de Productions Animale et Halieutique, Université de Parakou, Faculté d’Agronomie, Bénin

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• Maurice Cossi Ahozonlin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Ecole des Sciences et Techniques de Production Animale, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey- Calavi, Bénin

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• Mahamadou Dahouda,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecole des Sciences et Techniques de Production Animale, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d’Abomey- Calavi, Bénin

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• Eva Schlecht

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Kassel and University of Göttingen, Germany

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