Fig 1.
Map of Guelma (Algeria) showing the locations of the municipalities investigated. Map created using the Free and Open Source QGIS.
Fig 2.
The four brown Atlas cattle ecotypes examined in the present study.
(A) ecotype Guelmois; (B) ecotype Cheurfa (C); ecotype Sétifien; (D), (E) and (F) ecotype Fawn.
Table 1.
General characteristic of the study locations and number of cattle herds surveyed in Guelma region (Algeria).
Table 2.
Morphological traits measured on 130 indigenous cattle in Guelma region (Algeria).
Fig 3.
Dendrogram based on Euclidean distance.
Dendrogram illustrating the morphometric relationships examined in the present study.
Table 3.
Summary of stepwise selection of traits.
Table 4.
Total canonical structure.
Fig 4.
Canonical representation of the morphometric traits.
(A) Association with individuals by ecotype. Canonical representation of the barycenter of four ecotypes (B).
Table 5.
Mahalanobis distance between different ecotypes.
Fig 5.
Euclidean distances showing clustering relationships of four ecotypes based on morphological characters.
Table 6.
Percentages of individual classification per state based on discriminant analysis.