Multivariate selection under adverse genetic correlations: Impacts of population sizes and selection strategies on gains and coancestry in forest tree breeding

Tree Genetics and Genomes

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1169-1183

  Yanchuk, Alvin D ^a,c   Sanchez, Leopoldo ^b  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b National Institute for Agricultural Research   (France)

^c SCION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Genetic gain; Optimum selection; Pleiotropy; Population size; Rate of coancestry

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455141482     PISSN: 16142942     EISSN: 16142950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11295-011-0404-4     Document Type: Article

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