A PRE-PRESENTATION article (in French) written by Claude Guintard & Grégoire Leroy is available...
Excerpts (translated using google translate)...
CHAPTER I - The Standards
"The drafting of the breed standards, keystone of the breeding canine, is a delicate exercise. Every standard must overcome a contradiction. The breed standards, guardians of characteristics of the breed, is opposed to an evolution likely to drift towards improvement of the aesthetics of the breed or to respond to a newly perceived need..."
CHAPER II - Health and Genetics
"The second chapter constitutes a remarkable state of the art in this field. In advance, are recalled and discussed the concept of race, as well as the methods of selection and their consequences up to the relatively recent introduction of molecular approaches."
Remarkable and inspiring! A must read.
BOOK: Standards, santé et génétique chez le chien | Standards, Health and Genetics in the Dog
- 396 pages -
ISBN: 978274669-673-0
A limited number of copies of this book were published in 2017 by the Publishing house: Société Centrale Canine -- 155 avenue Jean Jaurès / 93535 AUBERVILLIERS Cedex. Published books were distributed to participants in the 3rd International Dog Health Workshop. The book is not commercially available at this time.
Edited by Ann Milligan
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