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Title: Adaptation and fitness in animal populations : evolutionary and breeding perspectives on genetic resource management
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9005-9
Publisher: Dordrecht ; London : Springer
Date: 2009
Author/Creator: van der Werf, Julius
Author/Creator: Graser, Hans-Ulrich
Author/Creator: Frankham, Richard
Author/Creator: Gondro, Cedric
Description: Defining fitness in natural and domesticated populations / James S.F. (Stuart) Barker -- Genetic architecture of reproductive fitness and its consequences / Richard Frankham -- Fitness traits in animal breeding programs / Michael Goddard. Discussion / John W. James -- Maintaining genetic variation in fitness / William G. Hill and Xu-Sheng Zhang -- Spherical cows grazing in flatland : constraints to selection and adaptation / Mark Blows and Bruce Walsh -- Maintaining fitness by within breed selection / Peter Bijma. Discussion / Michael Goddard -- Some evolutionary consequences of niche construction with genotype-environment interaction / Kathleen Donohue -- Genotype by environment interaction with farm animals / John W. James -- Drosophila and selection in nature : from laboratory fitness components to field assessments / Ary A. Hoffmann. Discussion / Keith Hammond -- Strategies to exploit genetic variation while maintaining diversity / Brian P. Kinghorn ... [et al.] -- Managing genetic diversity, fitness and adaptation of farm animal genetic resources / Louis Ollivier and Jean-Louis Foulley -- Livestock genetic resources : preserving genetic adaptations for future use / John P. Gibson. Discussion / Frank W. Nicholas -- Stuart Barker's contributions to population genetics and animal breeding : exploring fitness, evolution and animal genetics / Frank W. Nicholas and Keith Hammond.
Description: 258 page(s)
Subject Keyword: Animal genetics
Subject Keyword: Animals--Adaptation
Subject Keyword: Evolutionary genetics
Subject Keyword: Animal genetic engineering
Subject Keyword: Animal breeding
Subject Keyword: Animal mutation breeding
Resource Type: book
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Biological Sciences

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/117342
Identifier: ISBN:9781402090042
Identifier: mq-rm-2009008831
Language: eng

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