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Artificial Selection

Artificial Selection is a process of selective breeding in which humans intentionally choose and propagate individuals with desirable phenotypic traits in a population, thereby directing evolutionary change, distinguished from natural selection by the agency of human intervention rather than environmental pressures.

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Selective Breeding

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The effect of linkage on limits to artificial selection

William G. Hill, Alan Robertson · Genetics Research · 1966 · 2K citations · Full text

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The effect of linkage on limits to artificial selection

William G. Hill, Alan Robertson · Genetics Research · 2007 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection, Part V: Selection and Mutation

J. B. S. Haldane · Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 1927 · 1.4K citations

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Efficiency of marker-assisted selection in the improvement of quantitative traits.

Russell Lande, R. Thompson · Genetics · 1990 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Costs of Reproduction: An Evaluation of the Empirical Evidence

David N. Reznick · Oikos · 1985 · 1.4K citations

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    Paul M. Brakefield

    Leiden University, Netherlands

    18 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. TG
    Theodore Garland

    University of California, Riverside, United States

    17 publications · 1.7K citations

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    William G. Hill

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    17 publications · 4.5K citations

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  4. AC
    Alejandro Casas

    Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

    12 publications · 696 citations

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  5. BJ
    Bas J. Zwaan

    Leiden University, Netherlands

    10 publications · 733 citations

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  1. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    25 h-index

    71 publications

    4K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    22 h-index

    88 publications

    8.6K citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

    Beijing, China

    21 h-index

    152 publications

    12.4K citations

  4. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    20 h-index

    76 publications

    6.3K citations

  5. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    20 h-index

    63 publications

    11.7K citations

  6. Agricultural Research Service

    Washington, United States

    20 h-index

    62 publications

    11.9K citations

  7. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    18 h-index

    58 publications

    5.6K citations

  8. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    18 h-index

    45 publications

    3.6K citations

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  1. Evolution

    84 publications · 4.7K citations

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  2. Genetics

    48 publications · 6.2K citations

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 38 publications · 7.3K citations

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  4. PLoS ONE

    40 publications · 2.6K citations

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  5. Genetics Research

    42 publications · 6.9K citations

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