Individual increase in inbreeding allows estimating effective sizes from pedigrees

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 359-378

  Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo ^a   Cervantes, Isabel ^a   Molina, Antonio ^b   Valera, Mercedes ^c   Goyache, Félix ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

Author keywords

Effective size; Genetic contribution; Increase in inbreeding; Overlapped generation

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; INBREEDING; POPULATION SIZE; SIZE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETICS; HORSE; INBREEDING; MALE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HORSES; INBREEDING; MALE; PEDIGREE;

EID: 46749091299     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: 12979686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2008008     Document Type: Article

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