SPECIES

This Livestock animal breeds database is set up to serve the following purposes:

1. As a stable back-end information resource for the Animal QTLdb where breed information is need in order to properly record animal QTL/associations.
2. As part of our efforts to develop Livestock Breed Ontology (LBO).

The requirements for establishing an entry in this database are: (1) the breed must be from an existing public animal breed list (see below); (2) the breed must be "officially" declared or certified by a breed organization or a responsible govenment agency, and have necessary breed information publicly available.

The major information sources include but are not limited to:

• FAO - International domestic livestock resources information
• Infrastructure of Domestic Animal Resources (Chinese)
• Oklahoma State University - Breeds of Livestock
• Wikipedia - List of cattle breeds
• Wikipedia - List of pig breeds
• Wikipedia - List of chicken breeds
• Wikipedia - List of sheep breeds
• Wikipedia - List of horse breeds
• South Africa - Cattle International
• Domestic Forest (Website Registrant from Egypt)
• Livestockpedia