ISDS Border Collie Database

STATISTICS FROM THE STUD BOOKS

1. DATA BASE CONSTRUCTION   (press here for a Dutch revision)
2. KEY DOGS   (press here for a Dutch revision)
3. FOUNDERS   (press here for a Dutch revision)
4. INBREEDING   (press here for a Dutch revision)

REFERENCES

• Stud Books, Volume I to LIV ( I, II and 1949-2000 ), International Sheep Dog Society.
• Sheila Grew 'Key Dogs from the Border Collie Family'. Revised edition 1993.
• Roy Goutte 'The Principal Sheepdog Lines', Volume 1 (1995) and 2 (2000).
• E.B. Carpenter 'The Blue Riband of the heather, the supreme champions 1906-1995', 2nd edition (1996).
• E.B. Carpenter 'National Sheepdog Champions, of Britain and Ireland 1922-1993 (1994).
• D. Boichard (1997) 'The value of using probabilities of gene origin to measure genetic variability in a population', Genetics Selection Evolution (1997) 29, 5-23.
• David Rees (2001) 'The legacy of Edward Smith', WSN Vol.24 No.1 Jan/Febr 2001, 57-58.
• Roy Goutte (2001) 'Edward Smith's Hirdis', WSN Vol.24 No.3 May/June 2001, 38-39.
• Wright, S. (1922) 'Coefficients of inbreeding and relationship', Amer. Naturalist 56, 330-338.
• Henderson, C.R. (1976) 'A simple method for computing the inverse of a numerator relationship matrix used for prediction of breeding values', Biometrics 32,69-79.
• Quaas, R.L. (1976) 'Computing the diagonal elements and inverse of a large numerator relationship matrix', Biometrics 32,949-953.
• Meuwissen, T.H.E. and Luo, Z. (1992) 'Computing inbreeding coefficients in large populations', Genet. Sel. Evol. 24,305-313.