Estimating type B genetic correlations with unbalanced data and heterogeneous variances for half-sib experiments

Forest Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 562-572

  Lu, Peng Xin ^a   White, Timothy L ^a   Huber, Dudley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

BLUP; Breeding values; Genotype x environment interaction; Indirect selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032735485     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestscience/45.4.562     Document Type: Article

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