Heterosis and outbreeding depression: A multi-locus model and an application to salmon production
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Abstract
Both artificial propagation and efforts to preserve or augment natural populations sometimes involve, wittingly or unwittingly, the mixing of different gene pools. The advantages of such mixing vis-à-vis the alleviation of inbreeding depression are well known. Acknowledged, but less well understood, are the complications posed by outbreeding depression. This paper derives a simple model of outbreeding depression and demonstrates that it is reasonably possible to predict the generation-to-generation fitness course of hybrids derived from parents from different origins. Genetic difference, or distance between parental types, is defined by the drop in fitness experienced by one type reared at the site to which the other is locally adapted. For situations where decisions involving stock mixing must be made in the absence of complete information, a sensitivity analysis-based conflict resolution method (the Good-Bad-Ugly model) is described.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Heterosis and outbreeding depression: A multi-locus model and an application to salmon production |
| Series title | Fisheries Research |
| DOI | 10.1016/0165-7836(91)90095-W |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1991 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Contributing office(s) | Western Fisheries Research Center |
| Description | 31 p. |
| First page | 187 |
| Last page | 212 |
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