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Assortative mating occurs if the plants mating resemble each other more, with regard to some trait, than would be the case for a pair of random plants. It implies a positive phenotypic correlation for the trait involved between the mating plants. The genotypes of these plants for the loci controlling the expression for the trait will therefore tend to be similar With disassortative mating there is a negative phenotypic correlation between the mating plants with regard to the considered trait: the mating plants resemble each other less than plants belonging to pairs of random plants.
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© 1995 Izak Bos and Peter Caligari
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Bos, I., Caligari, P. (1995). Assortative mating and disassortative mating. In: Selection Methods in Plant Breeding. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8432-6_4
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