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24. Applications of Index Selection

• Improving the Response of a Single Character Using a Selection Index
  • General theory
  • More detailed analysis of two special cases
  • Repeated measures of a character
  • Selection on a ratio
• Using Information From Relatives
  • General Theory
  • Information from a single relative
  • Constructing selection indices when the individual itself is not measured
  • Within and between family selection
• Marker-assisted selection
  • Indirect selection on marker score: applications to sex-limited traits
  • Marker-assisted within- and between-family selection
  • Marker considerations

PDF versions of a recent draft of this chapter are available. Feel free to use this for personal and/or class use until the book is available. Please note that these are copyrighted and that I would greatly appreciate feedback . Note that while the screen view can look funny in places, the printed output is fine.

• Chapter 24 PDF file ( v. 4 August 1997 ): (27 typeset pages, 693K)

Programs

• A Mathematica notebook that computes and plots the within- and between-generation changes in the phenotypic and genotypic values for a bivariate character under a Gaussian infinitesimal model.

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