title: Half-sib mating structures.
abstract: All ways in which all matings in a population can be between half-sibs under a generalization of regular systems of inbreeding are characterized for both finite and infinite populations. A model of random half-sib mating is developed and analyzed, and the asymptotic configuration of populations subject to it is described. The classical model of half-sib mating which ensues from the standard definition of regular systems of inbreeding is only one of many ways a population can propagate by half-sib mating, and a wide range of genetic identity is possible dependent on which half-sib mating structure governs a population.
authors: Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls 50614-0441.
authors: R B
authors: RB
authors: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005828:Genetics, Population; D007178:Inbreeding; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D008957:Models, Genetic