The Misuse of BLUP in Ecology and Evolution

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  2009-11-18

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/648604PMID 19922262
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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