Mutation and conflicts between artificial and natural selection for quantitative traits.

Abstract excerpt

There is substantial new variation for quantitative traits generated by mutation that can be utilised by artificial selection. With long-term selection, however, response is often attenuated and a selection limit sometimes reached, even though genetic variation is frequently still present in thes...

Topics

• Animals
• Breeding
• Genetic Techniques
• Mice
• Mice, Inbred Strains
• Models, Genetic
• Models, Statistical
• Mutation
• Quantitative Trait, Heritable
• Selection, Genetic