Table 1.
Distribution of the current global Lundehund population.
Table 2.
Summary of the methods used for estimation of effective population size.
Table 3.
Number of male and female candidates and the relatedness between male and female candidates in the different OCS scenarios.
Fig 1.
Pedigree completeness (PCI) between 1964–2015 for pedigree completeness indices of 5 (PCI5), 7 (PCI7) and 10 (PCI10) generations.
Time steps are defined as 6-month periods within a year: /1 = January-June, /2 = July-December.
Fig 2.
Average inbreeding and pedigree completeness in the Lundehund population between time steps 1964/1 and 2015/1.
(A) Average inbreeding (F) and pedigree completeness considering 10 generations (PCI). (B) Expected and observed inbreeding and their deviation (alpha). Time steps are defined as 6-month periods within a year: /1 = January-June, /2 = July-December.
Table 4.
Average inbreeding coefficients in various dog breeds, a selection.
Table 5.
Estimates of effective population size (Ne) estimated with different methods.
For methods V and VI, standard error in parentheses.
Table 6.
Effect of the choice of reference population on the estimation of effective population size (Ne).
Table 7.
Optimal contribution selection from the Norwegian Lundehund data, 20 matings requested.
Fig 3.
Effect of introduction of foreign breeds into the default Lundehund parental population (N = 30, additive genetic relationship 0.77).
Default parental population: N = 30, additive genetic relationship (a) 0.77, inbreeding a/2. (A) Introduction of one breed. (B) Introduction of two or three breeds.