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• Title:The applied genetics of humans, animals, plants and fungi / Bernard C. Lamb.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lamb, Bernard C.
  
• Published/Created:London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH430 .L35 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Genetics.
  Genetic engineering.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xxi, 619 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781860946103
  1860946100
  
• Contents:1. Introduction; aims of applied genetics; revision of basic genetic concepts and terminology
  2. inheritance and analysis of qualitative and quantitative characters
  3. Regression, transgression, environmental effects and heritability; correlations between characters; genotype, phenotype and breeding values
  4. Population genetics : allele frequencies, genetic equilibria, population mixing, genetic drift and gene flow
  5. Types and uses of selection
  6. Departures from random mating
  7. Mutation and its uses
  8. Recombination, mapping and genomics
  9. Structural chromosome aberrations : their origins, properties and uses
  10. Changes in chromosome number : their effects and uses
  11. Supernumerary ("B") chromosomes
  12. Human and medical genetics
  13. Plant and animal breeding methods and examples
  14. Genetic engineering in plants, animals and micro-organisms
  15. Genetic variation in wild and agricultural populations; genetic conservation
  16. Genetic methods of insect pest control
  17. Reproductive physiology in plants, animals and humans; crossing methods
  18. Applied fungal genetics
  19. economics of agricultural products and breeding programmes.