Falconer, D. S.

Introduction to quantitative genetics / D.S. Falconer and Trudy F.C. Mackay. - 4th ed. - Essex, England : Longman, 1996. - xv, 464 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [436]-457) and index.

Genetic 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 Response and its Prediction -- Selection: II. 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 -- Equivalence of symbols used by Mather and Jinks. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.

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Genetics, Population.
Genetic Variation.
Quantitative genetics.

1996 A-768 QH 452.7 / FAL 1996