Estimating indirect genetic effects: Precision of estimates and optimum designs, pp. 1013–1028
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Social interactions among individuals can cause traits of individuals to depend on genes in other individuals, a phenomenon known as indirect genetic effects (IGE). IGEs profoundly affect response to natural selection and rates of genetic improvement in agriculture. This work identifies optimum experimental designs for estimating IGEs and provides tools for quantifying their magnitude. These findings promise better understanding of the impact of social interactions on response to selection, both in agricultural and in natural populations.
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Estimating indirect genetic effects: precision of estimates and optimum designs.
Social interactions among individuals are abundant both in natural and domestic populations. Such social interactions cause phenotypes of individuals to depend on genes carried by other individuals, a phenomenon known as indirect genetic effects (IGE). Because IGEs have drastic effects on the rate and direction of response to selection, knowledge of their magnitude and relationship to direct ge...
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تاریخ انتشار 2010