Nonrandom mating can structure populations and has important implications for population-level processes. Investigating how and why mating deviates from random is important for understanding evolutionary processes as well as informing conservation and management. Prior to the implementation of parentage analyses, understanding mating patterns in solitary, elusive species like bears was virtuall...

I N 1918, FISHER described the genotypic variance as consisting of additive genetic, dominance, and epistatic components. This model was later extended by FISHER, IMMER, and TEDIN (1932) to include the action of any number of genes in the absence of epistasis. WRIGHT (1935) presented a model dealing with epistatic effects of loci in pairs, as has GRIFFING (1950) in a constant parent regression ...

Cassava breeding is a critical aspect of sustainable agriculture to address the challenges food security and climate change. The present study aimed assess combining ability six Thai cassava elite varieties for four key traits, including fresh root yield (FRY), shoot (FSY), harvest index (HI) starch content (SC) through an analysis diallel mating design over two years. Parental lines HB80 R5 sh...

to study combining ability and genetic parameters of seed yield trait in rapeseed, eight lines of rapeseed were evaluated by a design of half diallel cross. seeds of f1 generation and their parents were grown in a 6 × 6 simple lattice design with two replications. according to the analysis of variance, general combining ability (gca), specific combining ability (sca) and mean squares of genotyp...

Welcome to the “BayesDiallel” R-package: software designed to provide parameter confidence measures for the many possible interpreative models of phenotypes generated by a diallel experiment1. This package provides a mostly-automated method for converting diallel phenotype measurements to Bayesian Gibbs-sampled model fits of the data, generating posterior-confidence measures and prediction plot...