Article
Marker-assisted selection for a sex-limited character in a nucleus breeding population.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Sept 1996
Ruane J, Colleau J J
Abstract excerpt
The benefits of marker-assisted selection were examined by simulation of an adult multiple ovulation and embryo transfer nucleus breeding scheme. Animals were either typed for two polymorphic marker loci, 20 centimorgans apart, flanking a single biallelic quantitative trait locus and were evaluated using a model accounting for marker information, or animals were not typed but were evaluated by a conventional BLUP...
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