Optimum designs for fish breeding programmes with constrained inbreeding mass selection for a normally distributed trait

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-72

  Gjerde, B ^a   Gjoen H M ^a   Villanueva, B ^b  

^a NOFIMA   (Norway)

^b Scottish Agriculture College   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fish breeding programmes; Maximum genetic gain; Optimum breeding schemes; Restriction on inbreeding; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

BREEDING PROGRAMME; FISH BREEDING; GENETIC GAIN; MASS SELECTION;

EID: 0030318754     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(96)01000-7     Document Type: Article

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