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Definitions for "Selection differential"
Keywords:  heritability, parents, population, criterion, quantitative
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the difference between the mean of the individuals selected to be parents and the mean of the overall population.
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The difference between the mean selection criterion of those individuals selected to be parents and the average selection criterion of all potential parents, expressed in units of the selection criterion.
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The difference between the average for a trait in selected animals and the average of the group from which they came. The expected response from selection for a trait is equal to selection differential times the heritability of the trait.
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