Effective sizes of livestock populations to prevent a decline in fitness

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 89, Issue 7-8, 1994, Pages 1019-1026

  Meuwissen, T H E ^a   Woolliams, J A ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Animal Physiology and Genetics Research ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical effective population size Inbreeding depression; Fitness Conservational biology; Natural selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000806835     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: 14322242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00224533     Document Type: Article

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