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Table 1
Effect of Selection Line on Selected Testicular Characteristics
Seminiferous tubule area (%)
Interstitial area (%)
Leydig cell as a percent of testis area
No. of leydig cell per g testis (x10 6 )
LH receptor sites per leydig cell (x10 3 )
Selection Line
Low High Control Mean
80.7' 81.6 82.2' 81.5
19.3 18.4b 17.8b 18.5
2.31 2.7b 2.21 2.4
23.2a 24.8& 23.8' 23.9
10.2a 15.3b 9.1' 11.5
'From Cardenas M.S. thesis, 1990, Montana State University, Bozeman.
projects being carried out by the Peruvian
experiment stations and made suggestions and
changes to each research project.
July 1990: The document "INIAA Livestock
Research Program at a Medium Term (1990­
1995)" was prepared by the committees. The
document contains:
a) Situation analysis, location, technologic
levels
b) Breeding characteristics and problems
c) Technologies available
d) Objectives and goals at Medium Term
1990-1995
"Research program objectives
"Research priorities
• Specific actions (definite research)
• Goals: Number of experiments per year
August 1990: With the changes of government
in Peri, the new INIAA Chief was appointed
and is now formalizing these actions of INIAA
with the new Peruvian regions.
Conclusions
In spite of the economic restrictions that
INIAA suffered during 1990, the support of the
Co-PIs of the SR-CRSP has been important.
Besides developing research plans at the medium
range 1990-1995, some consultation and
training activities have been accomplished with
many of the research stations. Likewise, the
continuous contact of the Co-PIs with researchers
of the experiments has allowed the researchers
at the stations to improve their professional
level and at the same time to transfer technology
generated by the SR-CRSP.
Changes in 1990 Workplans
With the phase down of the active
research projects and the decision to establish an
Andean Small Ruminant Network (ASRN),
considerable effort was devoted during the last
half of 1990 to this activity. The breeding project
purchased a laser printer, a 386-SX computer
with a large hard disk (80 MB), and a laptop
computer (286 with a 20 MB hard disk) to use in
the network activities. In addition, Dr. Arturo
Florez and Dr. Peter Burfening travelled to
Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina to discuss the
ASRN with principals in each country. Subsequently
Dr. Florez traveled to Ecuador and
Venezuela to make similar contacts. During
these trips we were able to identify the principles
from each country to represent their
countries as network representatives. The first
meeting of the ASRN was held in Lima from
December 2 to 4,1990.
The second major change was that the
breeding project supported a major publication
Produccidnde Rumiantes Menores:Alpaca which is
a compilation of the biology of the alpaca chapters
written by many of the biological scientist
involved with the SR-CRSP in Peru. The book is
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