Additive genetic breeding values correlate with the load of partially deleterious mutations

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5980, 2010, Pages 892-894

  Tomkins, Joseph L ^a   Penrose, Marissa A ^a   Greeff, Johan ^a,b   Lebas, Natasha R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GOOD GENES HYPOTHESIS; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; MUTATION; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ARTICLE; CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; MALE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTBREEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; WEEVIL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; INBREEDING; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS;

EID: 77952330296     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1188013     Document Type: Article

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