Session 12- G3

• Management of selected populations: from theory to practice (ugencjj@dga2.jouy.inra.fr)
• Optimum contribution selection conserves genetic diversity better than random selection in small populations with overlapping generations (katst@tlen.pl)
• SAUVAGE, a software to manage a population with few pedigrees (coralie.danchin@inst-elevage.asso.fr)
• Characterisation and conservation of genetic diversity between breeds (toro@inia.es)
• Investigations on the selection of breeds for conservation of genetic variance (jbennewitz@tierzucht.uni-kiel.de)
• Mean epistatic kinship - a new tool for the analysis of short-term phylogenetic structures (cflury@gwdg.de)
• An in-situ marker-assisted conservation scheme of 11 Italian avian breeds (martino.cassandro@unipd.it)
• Inbreeding in Danish dairy cattle breeds (AndersC.Sorensen@agrsci.dk)
• Economics of breeding programs with indigenous and adapted cattle in Africa and the effect on conservation (sabine.reist@alumni.ethz.ch)
• Preliminary analysis on genetic variability and relationships among five native Italian ovine breeds (riccardo.bozzi@unifi.it)
• Conservation of genetic diversity in German draught horse breeds using DNA markers (ottmar.distl@tiho-hannover.de)
• Establishing a national cryo bank for ovine breeds (thomas.schmidt@fal.de)
• Population and pedigree analysis of indigenous South African beef breeds (bobbie@tzv.fal.de)
• Cluster analysis of kinship in the Iceland Dog as a small pedigreed population (Pieter.Oliehoek@wur.nl)
• Inbreeding levels in the Italian heavy draught horse population (roberto.mantovani@unipd.it)