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Masterminding Nature : The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010 /
Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Artificial Selection Theory and Livestock Breeding, 1750-1900; 2 Early Developments in Genetics; 3 Practical Breeding via Theoretical Population Genetics; 4 New Directions: Artificial Insemination Technology and Quantitative Genetics; 5 Molecular Genetics, the Rise of Genomics, and Livestock Breeding; 6 Biology, Industry Needs, and Morality in Livestock Breeding; Conclusions; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.