Genetics Selection Evolution

Vol. 40 No. 1 (January-February 2008)

Editorial
• GSE news and editorial announcements     p. 1
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• Parameter expansion for estimation of reduced rank covariance matrices (Open Access publication)     p. 3
  Karin Meyer
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• A rapid conditional enumeration haplotyping method in pedigrees     p. 25
  Guimin Gao and Ina Hoeschele
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• Selection for uniformity in livestock by exploiting genetic heterogeneity of residual variance     p. 37
  Han A. Mulder, Piter Bijma and William G. Hill
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• Detection of quantitative trait loci for reproduction and production traits in Large White and French Landrace pig populations (Open Access publication)     p. 61
  Thierry Tribout, Nathalie Iannuccelli, Tom Druet, Hélène Gilbert, Juliette Riquet, Ronan Gueblez, Marie-José Mercat, Jean-Pierre Bidanel, Denis Milan and Pascale Le Roy
  Abstract | PDF file (165.4 KB) | References | Online Material



• Genes influencing milk production traits predominantly affect one of four biological pathways     p. 79
  Amanda Jane Chamberlain, Helen Clare McPartlan and Michael Edward Goddard
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• Estimation by simulation of the efficiency of the French marker-assisted selection program in dairy cattle (Open Access publication)     p. 91
  François Guillaume, Sébastien Fritz, Didier Boichard and Tom Druet
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• Biodiversity of pig breeds from China and Europe estimated from pooled DNA samples: differences in microsatellite variation between two areas of domestication     p. 103
  Hendrik-Jan Megens, Richard P.M.A. Crooijmans, Magali San Cristobal, Xiao Hui, Ning Li and Martien A.M. Groenen
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• Genetic and metabolic aspects of androstenone and skatole deposition in pig adipose tissue: A review (Open Access publication)     p. 129
  Annie Robic, Catherine Larzul and Michel Bonneau
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