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The value of indirect selection

II. Progeny testing

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Conditions are developed under which progeny-testing using indirect selection can give more rapid genetic improvement than using direct selection. Analogous conditions for mass selection are given in Searle [1954].

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  1. Biometrics Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA

    S. R. Searle

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Communicated by L.D. Van Vleck

Paper No. BU-335 in the Biometrics Unit, Cornell University.

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Searle, S.R. The value of indirect selection. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 51, 289–296 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00274817

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