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A despotic king might pass power on to more enlightened progeny.
The cross provides the mechanism by which genes are exchanged between the parents so that a wide array of diverse individuals is observed in the progeny of future generations.
The model will have immediate applications for many species in which progeny tests have been established for a number of years [ 24 ] . Most of these tests are maintained in different locations and measured annually, thus offering desirable opportunities to address two important questions: (1) How does the genes interact with environment?
We present a strategy for investigating the existence of genes in an arbitrarily complex progeny test based on phenotype data and estimating the effects of these genes on a quantitative trait and their population properties under the maximum likelihood framework.
Indeed, it has been estimated that the deleterious mutation rate in viruses that replicate using RNA polymerases (either reverse transcriptase in the case of retroviruses or RNA-dependent RNA polymerase for other RNA viruses) is on the order of one error per replication cycle, so that many of the viral progeny produced by replication are defective (Elena and Moya 1999).