Application of individual increase in inbreeding to estimate realized effective sizes from real pedigrees

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 301-310

  Cervantes, I ^a,c   Goyache, F ^b   Molina, A ^c   Valera, M ^d   Gutierrez J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Effective size; Increased in inbreeding; Overlapped generation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETICS; INBRED STRAIN; INBREEDING; MALE; MOUSE; PEDIGREE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, INBRED STRAINS; CATTLE; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; MUS;

EID: 52049110314     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: 14390388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2008.00755.x     Document Type: Article

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