Pedigree-Free Estimates of Heritability in the Wild: Promising Prospects for Selfing Populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gay, Laurene ^a   Siol, Mathieu ^a,b   Ronfort, Joelle ^a  

^a UMR AGAP   (France)

^b UNIV BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OUTCROSSING; PEDIGREE; PEDIGREE FREE METHOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SELFING; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84879344955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066983     Document Type: Article

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