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Estimating Trait Heritability in Highly Fecund Species.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 4 Oct 2015
Davies Sarah W, Scarpino Samuel V, Pongwarin Thanapat, Scott James, Matz Mikhail V
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Increasingly, researchers are interested in estimating the heritability of traits for nonmodel organisms. However, estimating the heritability of these traits presents both experimental and statistical challenges, which typically arise from logistical difficulties associated with rearing large numbers of families independently in the field, a lack of known pedigree, the need to account for group or batch effects,...
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