Open-nucleus breeding strategies compared with population-wide positive assortative mating: II. Unequal distribution of testing effort

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1169-1177

  Lstiburek M ^a   Mullin, T J ^a   Lindgren, D ^b   Rosvall, O ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BREEDING POPULATION (BP); POSITIVE ASSORTATIVE MATING (PAM); PRODUCTION POPULATION (PP);

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREEDING; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; MODELS, GENETIC; SOFTWARE;

EID: 8744251498     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-004-1737-2     Document Type: Article

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