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Theory for predicting the correlated response to selection during selfing is proposed and then validated by computer simulation. Pairs of characters, correlated either by pleiotropy or linkage, were simulated; linkage was in coupling, repulsion or a combination of the two. The correlated responses to both family and sib selection were examined. Comparison of expected with the average observed correlated responses showed the accuracy of the theory, but the observed sampling variation indicated that a wide variability of individual responses is to be expected in practice.
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Toms, E., Kearsey, M. & Cornish, M. Correlated response to selection during selfing. Heredity 73, 642–649 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1994.172
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