Evaluation of the effectiveness of introducing new alleles into the gene pool of a rare dog breed: Polish Hound as the example
The objective of the analysis was to check the possibility of enriching a gene pool of a rare dog breed by breeding use of dogs of unknown origin that are phenotypically similar to a given breed.The evaluation was performed using pedigree and mtDNA analyses applied to Polish Hounds.The results indicated the very limited breeding success of such dog