Selection for environmental variation: A statistical analysis and power calculations to detect response

Genetics

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2209-2226

  Ibáñez Escriche, Noelia ^a,b,c   Sorensen, Daniel ^c   Waagepetersen, Rasmus ^d   Blasco, Agustín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; LITTER SIZE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; RABBIT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; LITTER SIZE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 61849120056     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.091678     Document Type: Article

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