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A General Definition of the Heritable Variation That Determines the Potential of a Population to Respond to Selection

Genetic selection is a major force shaping life on earth. In classical genetic theory, response to selection is the product of the strength of selection and the additive genetic variance in a trait. The additive genetic variance reflects a population’s intrinsic potential to respond to selection. Th...

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Main Author: Bijma, Piter
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Genetics Society of America 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3241417/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21926298
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1534/genetics.111.130617
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