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Recurrent selection
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Recurrent selection

I. The detection of overdominance

  • J C Bowman1 nAff2 

Heredity volume 14, pages 197–206 (1960)Cite this article

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  1. J C Bowman

    Present address: Breeding Research Department, Thornber Bros. Ltd., Mytholmroyd, Halifax, Yorkshire

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  1. Institute of Animal Genetics, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, 9

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Bowman, J. Recurrent selection. Heredity 14, 197–206 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1960.17

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  • Received: 30 June 1959

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