Subadult individuals were all black-coated wild boar whose carcass weighed <50 kg, supposedly corresponding to 13- to 24-month-old animals.
Indeed, a high specificity (94%) has been recorded in young wild boar.
Young individuals were all reddish-brown coated or strayed wild boar and were assumed to be aged <12 months.
During the same period 15 593 spleens and 8013 sera were analysed from hunted wild boar.
An increase in the proportion of wild boar alleles across the genome increased length versus width of femur and reduced the prevalence of osteochondrosis.
There were big populations of larger mammals such as elk, deer, bears, wolves and wild boar.
The proportion of wild boar alleles averaged over the genome was then calculated from these probabilities.
Two mechanisms may explain the decrease of incidence in young wild boar over time.
