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The methods used to study cytoplasmic effects in quantitative traits often do not measure quantitative genetic parameters, while those that do are either complicated or do not take into account situations where the expression of cytoplasmic effects does not persist, but decreases in advanced generations. We present two simple models that take cytoplasmic effects and the quantitative genetic parameters into account. One of the models (A) is for cases where cytoplasmic effects remain constant through successive generations, and the second model (B) is for traits where cytoplasm-genotype interactions are present. This model also takes into account the decreasing persistence of cytoplasmic effects with advancing generations, which is often reported in the literature.
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Mosjidis, J.A., Waines, J.G., Yermanos, D.M. et al. Methods for the study of cytoplasmic effects on quantitative traits. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 77, 195–199 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00266186
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