The quantitative genetics of phenotypic variation in animals

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica A: Animal Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 175-182

  Hill, William G ^a   Mulder, Herman A ^b   Zhang, Xu Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental variance; Evolution; Genetic improvement; Selection index; Uniformity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 41749097395     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: 16511972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064700801959353     Document Type: Article

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