Researches Regarding the Existence of Phenotypic Correlations between Different Body Measurements at Males from Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog

Abstract

Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog was selected from a natural population breed in Carpathian Mountains. The aim of this paper was to estimate the correlation coefficients between 6 characteristics, using 26 males from Romanian Mioritic Shepherd Dog breed. The animals were registered with the Romanian Mioritic Association Club from Romania. Following the analysis of the phenotypic correlation, we identified some strong positive correlations between the length of the head and the length of the scull, and between the length of the head and the length of the snout. The correlations between the others characters were weak positive and weak negative.

Keywords

• phonotypical correlation
• characteristics
• body measurements