The lastest edition of this classic text continues to provide the basis for understanding the genetic principles behind quantitative differences in phenotypes and how they apply to animal and plant improvement and evolution. It extends these concepts to the segregation of genes that cause genetic variation in quantitative traits. Key techniques and methods are also covered.
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The genetics bible,
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Its almost useless to write a review for this book. If you're in genetics, then you know this book's reputation to be of the very highest order. It is THE introduction into quantitative genetics. I have it on my desk and use it as a reference constantly when trying to figure out evolutionary genetics and/or quantitative genetics papers.
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still the definitive word on the subject,
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I have been working in this field for more than 30 years. Even after all of this time, if I want to remind myself about how to explain an important concept, I go back to Falconer. By the time I completed my PhD, my fellow grad students and I agreed that "if you understand Falconer, you understand Quantitative Genetics". Even after all of these years, I still find this to be true.
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It's a good "introduction," and the 150 or so solved problems are good. Someone said this was a tough book but I'm not really seeing it.
It's hard to give 5 stars to a $100 paperback that will end up in a zip lock bag with the pages falling out. Although it's not the worst offender in that regard, when I opened the box it was like getting socks at Christmas.
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correlated selection differential, pygmy gene, variance between crosses, effective selection differential, theoretical maximum response, panmictic index, environmental resemblance, mean breeding value, mean genotypic value, identical homozygotes, abdominal bristle number, favouring heterozygotes, loci combine, mean gene frequency, sternopleural bristle number, observed gene frequency, mutational variance, genotypic values, pedigreed populations, equilibrium gene frequency, initial gene frequency, metric characters, downward selection, additive covariance, idealized population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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correlated selection differential, pygmy gene, variance between crosses, effective selection differential, theoretical maximum response, panmictic index, environmental resemblance, mean breeding value, mean genotypic value, identical homozygotes, abdominal bristle number, favouring heterozygotes, loci combine, mean gene frequency, sternopleural bristle number, observed gene frequency, mutational variance, genotypic values, pedigreed populations, equilibrium gene frequency, initial gene frequency, metric characters, downward selection, additive covariance, idealized population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Appendix Table, Generation Fig, Generations Fig, Selection Table, After Falconer, Heritability Table, Total Frequency, Genes Genotypes, British Large White, Abdominal Sternopleural, Liability Scale Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Molecular Dissection of Complex Traits by Andrew H. Paterson on 4 pages
- Statistical Genomics: Linkage, Mapping, and QTL Analysis by Ben Hui Liu on page 7, page 558, and Back Matter
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