Maximising a function of the selection differential

✍ Scribed by J. W. James

• Book ID: 104700383
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 184 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-5752
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00278379

✦ Synopsis

It is shown that some problems of optimising selection response can be solved without assuming a specific form of distribution for the trait of interest. To maximise the selection limit using selection among a fixed number every generation, all above the mean should retained. If a fraction of a population is set aside as a sire breeding nucleus, and selection is at one stage, maximum response per generation occurs when the nucleus as a fraction of the whole population is the square root of the sires: dams ratio. When a trait has an optimum, but declines in value at different rates A above and B below the optimum, the population mean should be chosen so that a fraction B/(A + B) are above the optimum.