Genomic selection on breeding time in a wild bird population.

ABSTRACT: Artificial selection experiments are a powerful tool in evolutionary biology. Selecting individuals based on multimarker genotypes (genomic selection) has several advantages over phenotype-based selection but has, so far, seen very limited use outside animal and plant breeding. Genomic selection depends on the markers tagging the causal loci that underlie the selected trait. Because the number of necessary markers depends, among other factors, on effective population size, genomic selection may be in practice not feasible in wild populations as most wild populations have much higher effective population sizes than domesticated populations. However, the current possibilities of cost-effective high-throughput genotyping could overcome this limitation and thereby make it possible to apply gen

SUBMITTER: Gienapp P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6591552 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature