Article
Efficiency of marker-assisted selection in the improvement of quantitative traits.
Genetics - 1 Mar 1990
Lande R, Thompson R
Abstract excerpt
Molecular genetics can be integrated with traditional methods of artificial selection on phenotypes by applying marker-assisted selection (MAS). We derive selection indices that maximize the rate of improvement in quantitative characters under different schemes of MAS combining information on molecular genetic polymorphisms (marker loci) with data on phenotypic variation among individuals (and their relatives)....
Topics
- Animals
- Female
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Genotype
- Male
- Mathematics
- Models, Genetic
- Phenotype
- Plants
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Selection, Genetic