Among-environment heteroscedasticity and the estimation and testing of genetic correlation

Heredity

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 403-413

  Dutilleul, Pierre ^a   Carrière, Yves ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Among environment heteroscedasticity; Genetic correlation; Phenotypic plasticity; Variance stabilizing transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642648638     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.1998.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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