Marker assisted selection with optimised contributions of the candidates to selection

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 679-703

  Villanueva, Beatriz ^a   Pong Wong, Ricardo ^b   Woolliams, John A ^b  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BLUP selection; Gene assisted selection; Marker assisted selection; Optimised selection; Restricted inbreeding

Indexed keywords

INBREEDING;

EID: 0036869309     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2002031     Document Type: Article

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