Introduction to Quantitative Genetics

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Longman, Scientific & Technical, 1989 - Science - 438 pages
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 calue; Inbreeding and crossbreeding: II changes of variance; Inbreeding and crossbreeding: III applications; Scale; Threshold characters; Correlated characters; Metric characters under natural selection.

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Frequencies of genes and genotypes
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CHANGES OF GENE FREQUENCY
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I CHANGES OF GENE
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