Margaret Derry

Masterminding Nature

The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781442626522
• ISBN-10: 1442626526
• Artikelnr.: 40903852

Autorenporträt

Margaret E. Derry is an adjunct professor in the Department of History and associated faculty at the Campbell Centre for Animal Welfare in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science at the University of Guelph.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Artificial Selection Theory and Livestock Breeding, 1750–1900
2. Early Developments in Genetics
3. Practical Breeding via Theoretical Population Genetics
4. New Directions: Artificial Insemination Technology and Quantitative
Genetics
5. Molecular Genetics, Genomics, and Livestock Breeding
6. Biology, Industry Needs, and Morality in Livestock Breeding
Conclusions
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography