Genetic gain of pure line selection and combined crossbred purebred selection with constrained inbreeding

Animal Science

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 225-232

  Bijma, P ^a   Woolliams, J A ^b   Van Arendonk, J A M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossbreeding; Effective population size; Genetic gain; Inbreeding; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942631655     PISSN: 13577298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1357729800055715     Document Type: Article

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