Response to mass selection when an identified major gene is segregating

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 313-337

  Pong Wong, Ricardo ^a   Woolliams, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gain; Inbreeding; Indite; Loss; Major gene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOTYPE; INBREEDING; NATURAL SELECTION;

EID: 0031793451     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:19980401     Document Type: Article

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