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This concept has been deprecated.

deprecated concept > litter size

Preferred term

litter size  

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Definition

  • [A. C. P ERIPATO] Litter size is an important reproductive trait as it makes a major contribution to fitness. Generally, traits closely related to fitness show low heritability perhaps because of the corrosive effects of directional natural selection on the additive genetic variance. Nonetheless, low heritability does not imply, necessarily, a complete absence of genetic variation because genetic interactions (epistasis and dominance) contribute to variation in traits displaying strong heterosis in crosses, such as litter size... , "The number of offspring produced at one birth by an animal.

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Entry terms

  • LS

Scope note

  • MS Academic Keywords

Editorial note

  • think about homonym (soil litter characteristics)

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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0611

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