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A note on Reeve’s method for estimating heritability with assortative mating

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A modification is presented of Reeve’s (1953) method of estimating heritability from progeny tests when the parents are selected and mated assortatively.

Unlike Reeve’s method, the method presented eliminates the unnecessary assumption that the environmental variances of the parent and offspring generations are equal.

Also, by this method the environmental variances in the parent and offspring generations can be evaluated separately for comparison.

An example of the application of this estimate of heritability to wing length inDrosophila melanogaster is also presented.

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  • Reeve, E. C. R. (1953). Studies in Quantitative Inheritance. III. Heritability and genetic correlation in progeny tests using Gifferent mating systems.J. Genetics,51, 520–542.

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    Timothy Prout

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Prout, T. A note on Reeve’s method for estimating heritability with assortative mating. J Genet 56, 48–54 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984719

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