Question

You are hired as a consultant for a new venture: pet-squirrel breeding! Because customers prefer bushy tails on their pet squirrels, you are asked to help produce bushy-tailed squirrels from a local population as quickly and efficiently as possible. Of course, you know that bushy tails are a quantitative genetic trait in squirrels. What information would you need to obtain in order to accomplish this task

Answer 1

I would primarily need to know about the narrow-sense heritability of the trait for the local squirrel population. Where the gene for bushy tails lie, whether it is a dominant trait or a recessive one. This mainly has to do with what fraction of variance in phenotype can be as a result of additive effects of gene. Once this information is known, I could breed pet-squirrels with bushy tails or even any other desirable trait requested for.

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