Impacts of cytoplasmic inheritance on genetic evaluations.

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Simulation was used to examine the consequences of ignoring cytoplasmic effects on genetic evaluations. Effects on variance component estimation, accuracy of selection, genetic trend, and selection of bull-dams were considered. Comparisons were made for sire and animal models, several levels of cytoplasmic variance, and definition of cytoplasmic effects as either fixed or random. Ten replications with...

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