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It is shown that when an exotic strain and a commercial strain differ genetically at a quantitative locus and at an adjoining marker locus, repeated backcrosses to the commercial strain, retaining only backcross progeny carrying the exotic marker allele, will allow the effective introgression of the linked quantitative allele from the exotic to the commercial strain. The introgression procedure will be particularly effective when exotic and commercial strains differ at two nearby marker loci with the quantitative locus bracketed between them. The simultaneous introgression of a number of quantitative alleles from different exotic strains, and appropriate selection procedures in the intercross generations that follow are also considered.
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Soller, M., Plotkin-Hazan, J. The use marker alleles for the introgression of linked quantitative alleles. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 51, 133–137 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00273825
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00273825