Description

This 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.

Features

• New chapter on Quantitative Trait Loci
• Fully revised chapter on natural selection, with increased emphasis on maintenance of variation by mutation-selection balance
• Incorporates essential maths necessary for using computer algorithms
• Addresses potential applications in animal and plant breeding, and human disease
• More evolutionary and molecular examples and problems
• Problems and solutions based on real data to test understanding
  
  

New to this Edition

• A new chapter on Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs).

• Fully revised chapter on natural selection with more emphasis on maintenance of variation by mutation-selection balance.

• More evolutionary and molecular examples and problems.

Table of Contents

1. Genetics Constitution of a Population
2. Changes of Gene Frequency
3. Small Populations: I Changes of Gene Frequency Under Simplified Conditions
4. Small Populations: II Less Simplified Conditions
5. Small Populations: III Pedigreed Populations and Close Inbreeding
6. Continuous Variation
7. Values and Means
8. Variance
9. Resemblance Between Relatives
10. Heritability
11. Selection: I The Results of Experiments
12. Selection: III Information from Relatives
13. Inbreeding and Crossbreeding: I Changes of Mean Value
14. Inbreeding and Crossbreeding: II Changes of Variance
15. Inbreeding and Crossbreeding: III Applications
16. Scale
17. Threshold Characters
18. Correlated Characters
19. Metric Characters under Natural Selection
20. Quantitative Trait Loci