Maintenance of quantitative genetic variation in animal breeding programmes

Livestock Production Science

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-109

  Hill, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal breeding; Genetic conservation; Genetic variation; Mutation; Population size; Selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BREEDING; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC GAIN; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; POPULATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

EID: 0034055135     PISSN: 03016226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-6226(99)00115-3     Document Type: Review

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