A fact from Popular sire effect appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 December 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the practice of breeding show dogs has produced popular sire effects that reduce genetic diversity and can exacerbate the spread of inherited diseases?
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Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion
I got to this page by a link on a cat breed page and I've heard of this phenomenon in horse and cattle breeding as well. The page is completely dog-centric as it stands now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.88.108.26 (talk) 18:28, 1 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Should also include HYPP (horses, Impressive) and CVM (cattle, Carlin M Ivanhoe Bell). Pitke (talk) 11:53, 29 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
It's called Single Sire Syndrome. It's very common in race horses, where virtually 100% of the breed have a common ancestor less than a century ago, and other purebred animals. Suggest the article be renamed. AQBachler (talk) 19:00, 20 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
In case anyone can't find it, some of the numbers from the Calboli ref are taken from Table 2 and are not found in the main text.--Dodo bird (talk) 11:24, 15 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
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