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Influences of genetic variance in phenotypic variability on response to artificial selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

W. G. Hill
W. G. Hill*
Affiliation:
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK.
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E-mail: w.g.hill@ed.ac.uk
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In standard models of the genetic basis of quantitative traits such as growth rate and milk yield, it is assumed that genotypes differ in their effect on the mean but not on the variance. There is much evidence of differences in variability among environments, and more limited but quite conclusive evidence of differences in residual variability among genotypes (e.g. CanCristobal-Gaudy et al, 1998; Sorensen and Waagepetersen, 2003). Differences among genotypes at an individual locus in their residual phenotypic variation or in the environmental variation among whole genotypes may influence rates of genetic progress and rates of change in variability. We propose models and quantify such changes for directional selection (see also Hill, 2002; Hill and Zhang, 2004).

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2004 , 2004 , pp. 30
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2004

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