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16. Long-term Response: Large Populations

• Idealized Long-term Response in a Large Population
• Deterministic Single-locus Theory
  • Lande's model: a major gene in an infinitesmal background
  • Are major genes or polygenes more important for long-term response?
• An Overview of Long-term Selection Experiments
  • Estimating selection limits and half-lives
  • General features of long-term selection experiments
  • Increases in variances and accelarated responses
  • Linkage effects
• Conflicts Between Natural and Artificial Selection
  • Accumulation of lethals in selected lines
  • Expected equilibrium frequency of recessive lethals
  • Lerner's model of genetic homoestasis
• Characterizing the Nature of Selection Limits

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• Chapter 16 PDF file ( v. 14 May 1998 ): (35 typeset pages, 726K)

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