Table 1. Breeds included in the present study.

Group	Breed name	Number ofsamples	Aptitude
Dairy	Chios	23	High milk production
	Churra	96	Double purpose breed(milk and lamb production
	Comisana	24	Highly-specialized dairy breed
	East Friesian Brown	39	Highly-specialized dairy breed
	Milk Lacaune	103	Highly-specialized dairy breed
Non-dairy	Australian Poll Merino	98	Meat production
	Meat Lacaune	78	Meat production
	Ojalada	24	Meat production
	Sakiz	22	Triple-purpose (milk, meat, wool)
	Finnsheep	99	Primary used for wool production;more recently used for meat production.

The classification established into Dairy and Non-dairy groups are presented together with some details about the breed aptitude.