Description
Book SynopsisThis classic text continues to provide the basis for understanding genetic principles behind quantitative differences, and extends these concepts to the segregation of genes that cause genetic variation in quantitative traits.
Table of Contents
- Genetics Constitution of a Population
- Changes of Gene Frequency
- Small Populations: I Changes of Gene Frequency Under Simplified Conditions
- Small Populations: II Less Simplified Conditions
- Small Populations: III Pedigreed Populations and Close Inbreeding
- Continuous Variation
- Values and Means
- Variance
- Resemblance Between Relatives
- Heritability
- Selection: I The Results of Experiments
- Selection: III Information from Relatives
- Inbreeding and Crossbreeding: I Changes of Mean Value
- Inbreeding and Crossbreeding: II Changes of Variance
- Inbreeding and Crossbreeding: III Applications
- Scale
- Threshold Characters
- Correlated Characters
- Metric Characters under Natural Selection
- Quantitative Trait Loci
