Positive assortative mating with selection restrictions on group coancestry enhances gain while conserving genetic diversity in long-term forest tree breeding

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 629-642

  Rosvall, O ^a   Mullin, T J ^b  

^a THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding population; Effective population size; Genetic gain; Inbreeding depression; Positive assortative mating

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; GENES;

POSITIVE ASSORTATIVE MATING (PAM);

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; FORESTRY; INBREEDING; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SWEDEN; TREES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0041374126     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-003-1318-9     Document Type: Article

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