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A correction to our earlier paper on ‘The effect of repeated cycles of selection and regeneration in populations of finite size’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

R. N. Curnow
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Statistics, University of Reading, England
L. H. Baker
Affiliation:
Pioneer Hi-bred Corn Company, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A.
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The basic recurrence equations given in our previous paper have to be modified when males and females are differentiated. The modifications we gave are incorrect because we ignored the deviations from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium when sampling and selection are applied separately to the two sexes. Appropriate corrections are presented in this paper.

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Short Papers
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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