Quantitative Genetics
On the Quantitative Genetics of Mixture Characters
... Some basic results of standard theory of quantitative genetics under additive inheritance were extended to finite mixture models with Gaussian components. It was found that, if there is heterogeneity in a ...
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Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping Based on Resampling in a Vast Maize Testcross Experiment and Its Relevance to Quantitative Genetics for Complex Traits
... ments and cross-validation to assess the effect of sample size (N ), number of test environments (E), and significance threshold on the number of detected QTL, the proportion of the genotypic variance explained by them, ...
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Marker-Based Quantitative Genetics in the Wild?: The Heritability and Genetic Correlation of Chemical Defenses in Eucalyptus
... Quantitative genetics of chemical defenses in E. melliodora: Using marker-based methods, we found sig- nificant narrow-sense heritability of the foliar defense compounds sideroxylonal and cineole and of ...
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Reliable confidence intervals in quantitative genetics: narrow-sense heritability
... of quantitative genetic methods to organisms that can be bred at high ...the quantitative genetic approach is rarely directly criticised for inaccurate estimates (but see Mitch- ell-Olds and Rutledge ...in ...
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Understanding Quantitative Genetics in the Systems Biology Era
... systems quantitative genetics but being mainly solved from the view of molecular quantitative genetics have been done ...genetical genetics [20-23] [41-45] [83] [84] have preliminarily ...
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D. S. Falconer and Introduction to Quantitative Genetics
... My aim in writing this book has been to provide an intro- funded, self-directed groups, rather than the traditional ductory textbook of quantitative genetics, with the em- hierarchical European university ...
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Quantitative Genetics of Food Intake in Drosophila melanogaster.
... I further applied quantitative genetics approaches to examine food intake using mass selection. In Chapter 3, I describe the phenotypic responses from the application of selection pressure on a base ...
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Quantitative genetics of Eucalyptus globulus: Affinities of land race and native stand localities
... Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. pp. 499-502. (1998). — V EGA A LONSO , G., T OVAL H ERNANDEZ , G., B ASURCO G ARCIA - C ASAL , F. and R ODRIGUEZ S OALLEIRO , R.: Early growth of 260 families ...
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Quantitative genetics of gene expression during fruit fly development
... Over the last ten years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to identify genetic variants associated with many diseases as well as quantitative phenotypes, by exploiting naturally occurring ...
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Quantitative Genetics of Drought Resistance in Early Maturing Maize (Zea Mays L)
... Historically, quantitative genetic and mutation approaches were utilized to improve grain quality traits in maize germplasms (Dudley and Lambert, 2004; Pollak and Scott, ...the quantitative genetic approach ...
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QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF FERTILITY II. LIFETIME EGG PRODUCTION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTEREXPERIMENTAL
... A feature of the model is that the parameters and derivations can be calculated without measuring daily egg productions throughout the entire lifetime of the females.-A co[r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of postponed aging in Drosophila melanogaster. II. Analysis of selected lines.
... Selection successfully increased the degree of differentiation of postponed aging stocks with respect to starvation resistance and fecundity, but persistent additive genetic varianc[r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of postponed aging in Drosophila melanogaster. I. Analysis of outbred populations.
... Transmission pattern experiments: Four features of the transmission data are of importance: (i) differ- ences between B and 0 lines, within treatments; (ii) differences b[r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of Eucalyptus globulus, E nitens and their F1 hybrid
... Genetic analysis of interspecific backcross families of a hybrid of Eucalyptus grandis and Eucalyptus globt~lus.In 'Hybrid Breeding and Genetics of Forest Trees'.. of QFRIICRC-SPF Sympos[r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of sex ratio traits in the parasitic wasp, Nasonia vitripennis.
... Statistical procedures: We used least-squares regression analysis of arc-sine transformed values and logistic regression analysis to assess the relationship between mother and [r] ...
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Quantitative genetics of doubled haploid populations and application to the theory of line development.
... From a plant breeding point of view, the theory introduced leads to the conclusion that the single doubled haploid descent recurrent selection will be one of the most effi[r] ...
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QUANTITATIVE GENETICS OF FERTILITY I. LIFETIME EGG PRODUCTION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTERTHEORETICAL
... If the exponential decay rate (a) operates throughout a n adult lifetime, then the egg production curve (Figure 1 ) may be factored into two components, The observed shape o[r] ...
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Chapter 18: Quantitative Genetics I Important Concepts
... In the chapter on Mendel and Morgan, we saw how the transmission of genes from one generation to another follows a precise mathematical formula. The traits discussed in that chapter, however, were discrete traits—peas ...
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Quantitative genetics of Eucalyptus globulus, E nitens and their F1 hybrid
... Moderate levels of heritability were demonstrated for frost resistance in both species, but dominance effects could not be accurately estimated.. The correlation of performance of parent[r] ...
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Quantitative Genetics and Genomics of Drosophila Life Span
... of effort, and avoids the possible effects of inbreeding depression on traits related to fitness. Further, deficiency mapping is readily scalable to multiple lines, which facilitates inferences about frequency of QTL ...
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