Table 5.

Analysis of the Cattle dataset with 3907 male selection candidates under different combinations of restrictions on the minimal and maximal contributions with respect to genetic gain and optimal number of candidates to select

$Cmin$	$Cmax$	$\mathrm{\Delta }G$ a	Number of selected animalsa
0.0025	–	1.471	62 (65)
0.0050	–	1.471	51 (57)
–	0.01	1.437	100
–	0.02	1.464 (1.463)	76 (77)
–	0.03	1.470	74
–	0.04	1.472 (1.471)	75 (76)
–	0.05	1.472 (1.471)	75
0.0025	0.01	1.437	100
0.0025	0.02	1.462	68
0.0025	0.03	1.471 (1.470)	61 (62)
0.0025	0.04	1.471	64 (65)
0.0025	0.05	1.472 (1.471)	63 (65)
0.0050	0.01	1.437	100
0.0050	0.02	1.462	61
0.0050	0.03	1.470 (1.469)	53 (55)
0.0050	0.04	1.471	55 (56)
0.0050	0.05	1.471	57
0.0083	0.0083	1.429	120

$Cmin$ = minimum contribution

$Cmax$ = maximum contribution

$\mathrm{\Delta }F=0.01$

^aIf there was a difference between the two algorithms, the result obtained with Gencont is shown in parentheses