Understanding Animal Breeding

Name: Understanding Animal Breeding
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ISBN: 9780130964496

ISBN-10: 0130964492

ISBN-13: 9780130964496

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Richard Bourdon

List price: $133.32

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For Animal Breeding and Genetics courses. An experienced educator in animal breeding, Rick Bourdon designed this book to be a modern, technologically up-to-date approach to animal breeding that is less intimidating to students than competing texts. The book is meant to be a learning text or guide as opposed to simply a reference. Understanding Animal Breeding addresses the abstract concepts of animal breeding, presenting the necessary mathematics, but previous experience in genetics and statistics is not assumed. Well organized and readable, the book stresses application, then explains theory for an overall understanding of the material.

Book details

List price: $133.32
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 7/29/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 8.30" wide x 10.20" long x 1.60" tall
Weight: 2.970
Language: English




Animal Breeding From The Top Down



What is the "Best" Animal?



How are Animal Populations Improved?



Animal Breeding From The Bottom Up



Mendelian Inheritance



Genes in Populations



Simply-Inherited and Polygenic Traits



Selection



Selection for Simply-Inherited Traits



The Genetic Model for Quantitative Traits



Statistics and Their Application to Quantitative Traits



Heritability and Repeatability



Factors Affecting the Rate of Genetic Change



Genetic Prediction



Large-Scale Genetic Evaluation



Correlated Response to Selection



Multiple-Trait Selection



Mating Systems



Selection for Simply-Inherited Traits



Mating Strategies Based on Animal Performance: Random and Assortative Mating



Mating Strategies Based on Pedigree Relationship: Inbreeding and Outbreeding



Hybrid Vigor



Crossbreeding Systems



New Techniques, Old Strategies



Biotechnology and Animal Breeding



Commonsense Animal Breeding


Glossary


Appendix


Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems


Index