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Fig. 4. Values of NSel that led to the maximum response to selection at different cycles of recurrent selection. NSel values of 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 were considered. The size of the plotted circles corresponds to the number of times, across the different genetic models studied, a particular NSel value led to the maximum response. The dotted lines depict the proposed rule-of-thumb that for cycle NSel – 1, the optimum number of individuals to select and recombine in each cycle is equal to NSel.
