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Potential benefit from using an identified major gene in BLUP evaluation with truncation and optimal selection [PDF]
, 1999 This study investigates the benefit of including information on an identified major gene in the estimation of breeding values in BLUP selection programmes. Selection for a quantitative trait is controlled by polygenes and a major locus with known effect.
Ricardo Pong-Wong +11 more
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The costs of extra‐pair behaviours in birds
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Extra‐pair behaviours – reproductive behaviours, including those related to copulation and paternity of offspring, amongst animals outside of a social pair bond – have long intrigued behavioural ecologists, particularly from the female animal's perspective.
Jørgen S. Søraker, Jamie Dunning
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Exploring inbreeding depression in Brazilian Angus cattle population using pedigree and genomic data
Frontiers in GeneticsIntroductionInbreeding depression refers to the decline in performance caused by increased levels of inbreeding, which results from mating individuals with common ancestors.
Henrique A. Mulim +3 more
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On the close relationship between speciation, inbreeding and recessive mutations.
, 2010 Whilst the principle of adaptive evolution is unanimously recognised as being caused by the process of natural selection favouring the survival and/or reproduction of individuals having acquired new advantageous traits, a consensus has proven much harder
Etienne Joly
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Evolutionary Applications, 2019 Inbreeding depression, the deterioration in mean trait value in progeny of related parents, is a fundamental quantity in genetics, evolutionary biology, animal and plant breeding, and conservation biology.
Pirmin Nietlisbach +4 more
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JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is a genetic disorder found worldwide, but its impact is particularly pronounced in the African continent. This results from both a higher prevalence and the persistent myths and superstitions surrounding the condition in many African communities.
Rebecca Donadoni +3 more
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Genetic inbreeding load and its individual prediction for milk yield in French dairy sheep
Genetics Selection EvolutionBackground The magnitude of inbreeding depression depends on the recessive burden of the individual, which can be traced back to the hidden (recessive) inbreeding load among ancestors.
Simona Antonios +5 more
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The existence of species rests on a metastable equilibrium between inbreeding and outbreeding
, 2011 Background: Speciation corresponds to the progressive establishment of reproductive barriers between groups of individuals derived from an ancestral stock.
Etienne Joly
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Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.The genus Hordeum (Poaceae), of the tribe Triticeae, comprises approximately 32 species with substantial potential for barley improvement. Hordeum vulgare is an economically important cereal widely cultivated across diverse environments, from the Arctic to desert and humid regions.
Maryam Keshavarzi +2 more
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Oikos, EarlyView.Dispersal is a key ecological trait that ensures connectivity, gene flow, and range dynamics, yet empirical information about how dispersal distances vary within species remains scarce. Many studies, investigating for instance connectivity conservation, use typical species‐specific dispersal kernels without accounting for the fact that these kernels ...
Jette Wolff +5 more
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