Article
Genetic analysis of crossfostering data with sire and dam records.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Riska B, Rutledge J J, Atchley W R
Abstract excerpt
A method is presented for the analysis of data from crossfostering experiments in which parts of litters are reciprocally interchanged at birth. Observed variances and covariances of differently related individuals are expressed as functions of theoretical causal components of phenotypic variance (additive direct, dominance direct, additive maternal, dominance maternal, direct-maternal covariance, and...
Topics
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Genetic Variation
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Phenotype
- Regression Analysis