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Survival of the currently fittest: genetics of rainbow trout survival across time and space.
Genetics - 1 Sept 2008
Vehviläinen Harri, Kause Antti, Quinton Cheryl, Koskinen Heikki, Paananen Tuija
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As a fitness trait, survival is assumed to exhibit low heritability due to strong selection eroding genetic variation and/or spatio-temporal variation in mortality agents reducing genetic and increasing residual variation. The latter phenomenon in particular may contribute to low heritability in multigeneration data, even if certain cohorts exhibit significant genetic variation. Analysis of survival data from 10...
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