MateSel helps breeders visualise the trade-off between genetic gain and inbreeding. 

• The Frontier (black line) shows the maximum genetic progress possible at different coancestry levels. 

• The Crosshair (blue) indicates your herd’s current balance of genetic gain vs inbreeding. 

• The Red Trail shows how MateSel reached its final solution. 

• In most cases the most favourable optimisation of gain and diversity is toward the top left of the graph, between Zone A and Zone B.  

• Zone A represents potential solutions where very little increase in future inbreeding results in a relatively large increase in progeny genetic merit. Zone B represents potential solutions where a large increase in future inbreeding results in relatively little further increase in progeny genetic merit.