Armando Caballero

Quantitative Genetics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An up-to-date, accessible guide to the main concepts and applications of quantitative genetics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781108481410
• ISBN-10: 1108481418
• Artikelnr.: 59473936

Autorenporträt

Armando Caballero is Professor of Genetics at Universidade de Vigo, Spain, with research interests in quantitative and population genetics, conservation genetics and evolution. He has served as Associate Editor for the journals Evolution, American Naturalist, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics Selection Evolution and Heredity.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Preface to the Spanish version
1. Continuous variation
2. Forces of change in the allele frequencies
3. Components of phenotypic values and variances
4. Inbreeding and coancestry
5. Effective population size
6. Estimation of genetic values, variances and covariances
7. Mutation
8. Consequences of inbreeding
9. Artificial selection
10. Natural selection
11. Genomic analysis of quantitative traits
Solution to the problems and self-assessment questions
Glossary
References
Index.