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- Title
Impact of selection on effective population size: a commentary on ?Inbreeding in artificial selection programmes? by Alan Robertson.
- Authors
HILL, WILLIAM G.
- Abstract
The author comments on the report "Inbreeding in artificial selection programmes," by Alan Robertson. He points out that Robertson was able to show the impact of selection of population size. A discussion on methods in Robertson's prediction of the impact of the effect that selection has on population size is given, including inbreeding rates for a couple of Drosophila experimental populations.
- Subjects
NATURAL selection; DROSOPHILA melanogaster; POPULATION genetics; INBREEDING; GENETICS
- Publication
Genetics Research, 2007, Vol 89, Issue 5/6, p273
- ISSN
0016-6723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0016672308009464