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From the point of view of the plant or animal breeder, an individual’s worth lies more in its ability to transmit performance qualities to its offspring than in its own performance. This principle is embodied in the concept of the breeding value of the individual, defined as twice the average value of that individual’s potential offspring, taken as a deviation from the population mean. The average is doubled to adjust for the fact that only half of the offspring values are derived from the genes of the parent being evaluated.
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Doolittle, D.P. (1987). Breeding Values. In: Population Genetics. Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71734-5_35
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