Genetic response from marker assisted selection in an outbred population for differing marker bracket sizes and with two identified quantitative trait loci

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1389-1396

  Spelman, Richard ^a,b   Bovenhuis, Henk ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SIMULATION;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENETIC MARKERS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031980992     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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