Response to mass selection when the genotype by environment interaction is modelled as a linear reaction norm

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 435-454

  Kolmodin, Rebecka ^a   Bijma, Piter ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genotype by environment interaction; Mass selection; Reaction norm; Selection response

Indexed keywords

GENOTYPE; SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3142568973     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2004010     Document Type: Article

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