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Molecular and Quantitative Animal Genetics
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2015.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Manuscript Reviewers
- Preface
- 1: Decoding and Encoding the "DNA" of Teaching and Learning in College Classrooms
- Introduction
- Teaching and learning: definitions
- Understanding learning
- Research in learning
- Transferable and life-long learning skills and aptitudes
- Understanding teaching
- Research in teaching
- Implications for classroom design in the twenty-first century
- Architecture of an effective classroom
- Instructional features for life-long learning
- Toward an active learning classroom
- Final thoughts
- References
- Review questions
- Section 1: Quantitative and Population Genetics
- 2: Mating Systems: Inbreeding and Inbreeding Depression
- Introduction
- Inbreeding
- Genetic defects
- Inbreeding depression
- Cause of inbreeding depression
- Quantifying inbreeding
- Inbreeding coefficient
- Inbreeding coefficient formula
- Calculating inbreeding coefficients
- Genomics and inbreeding
- Summary
- Further reading
- References
- Review questions
- 3: Genomic Selection, Inbreeding, and Crossbreeding in Dairy Cattle
- Introduction
- Genomic selection
- Genotyping tools
- Parentage verification and discovery
- Individual genes with large effects
- Genotype imputation
- Genome-enabled breeding value prediction
- Applications of genomics to selection of elite breeding stock
- Applications of genomics to improvement of replacement heifers on commercial farms
- Crossbreeding
- Breed characteristics and complementarity
- Heterosis and crossbreeding systems
- Experiments and field results
- Inbreeding and genetic defects
- Relationships, inbreeding, and effective population size
- Inherited defects
- Inbreeding depression for quantitative traits
- Managing inbreeding and genetic diversity
- Summary
- References
- Review questions
- 4: Basic Genetic Model for Quantitative Traits
- Introduction
- Quantitative traits
- Expected value and variance: the normal distribution
- Basic genetic model for quantitative traits
- Heritability and selection
- Predicting rate of genetic change from selection
- Further reading
- References
- 5: Heritability and Repeatability
- Introduction
- Heritability
- Estimation of heritability and variance components
- Prediction of breeding values and of response to selection
- Repeatability
- References
- 6: Applications of Statistics in Quantitative Traits
- Population and sample
- Parameter and statistics
- Descriptive statistics
- Types of variables
- Descriptive statistics categorical (qualitative) data
- Descriptive statistics for quantitative variables
- Comparing of arithmetic mean, median, and mode
- Measures of dispersion
- Graphically examining the distribution of the data
- Graphical presentation of categorical data
- Graphical presentation of quantitative data
- Normal distribution