Variance component analysis of skin and weight data for sheep subjected to rapid inbreeding

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-59

  Shaw, Frank H ^a   Woolliams, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dominance variance; Inbreeding depression; Restricted maximum likelihood; Sheep; Variance components

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MODEL; INBREEDING; NONHUMAN; SHEEP; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

EID: 0032974747     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:19990103     Document Type: Article

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