Improving the estimation of realized effective population sizes in farm animals

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 327-332

  Gutierrez J P ^a   Cervantes, I ^a   Goyache, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

Author keywords

Effective size; Increase in inbreeding; Overlapped generations; Real populations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; INBREEDING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; FEMALE; INBREEDING; MALE; PEDIGREE; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 68249150996     PISSN: 09312668     EISSN: 14390388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2009.00810.x     Document Type: Article

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