A Monte Carlo Evaluation of Predicted Selection Response

Abstract

This study utilizes a computer programme that simulates the effects of selection, linkage, and environmental variation on the genetic progress of finite populations. The results, with respect to selection advance and the inbreeding that occurs in small populations, have been discussed previously (Gill 1965). In the present paper, the correspondence of Monte Carlo results to the hypothetical progress predicted according to a mathematical formulation given by Griffing (1960) is evaluated.