Article
[Effect of selection on heterozygosity of farm animals].
TSitologiia i genetika - 1 Jan 2000
Rozhkov Iu I, Okhapkin S K, Vorob'ev E G, Bezenko S P, Galimov I R
Abstract excerpt
A stabilizing selection which is made in cattle according to phenotypic characters affects simultaneously a genetic character--the level of individual heterozygosity++. As a result animals with mean (modal) level of heterozygosity++ have the least probability of elimination. Similarly, the drivin...
Topics
- Animals
- Cattle
- Genotype
- Heterozygote
- Horses
- Phenotype
- Selection, Genetic
- Swine