Fig. 3

Average genetic merit after selection for conservation (cons), and genetic improvement and conservation (impcons) strategies. The dark blue symbol and line represent the full pedigree, the beige represent the scenario for which Yang’s estimated relationships from SNP chip data are used, the orange represent the scenario for which similarity-based estimated relationships from SNP chip are used, the dark beige represent the scenario Yang’s estimated relationships from WGS data are used, finally, the brown represent the scenario for which similarity-based estimated relationships from WGS data are used. The first plot represents the evolution of average genetic merit when the constraint on the number of selected individuals goes from none to 20, 10 and 5 in the strategy cons, with minimised \(\Delta F\), the second plot represents the evolution of average genetic merit when the constraint on the number of selected individuals goes from none to 20, 10 and 5 in the strategy impcons, with \(\Delta F\) fixed to 0.01