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Population Genetics:

Basic Principles

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Donald P. Doolittle

    1. Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

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Part of the book series: Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences (AGRICULTURAL, volume 16)

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Table of contents (44 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. The Hardy-Weinberg Law

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Hardy-Weinberg Law

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      Pages 2-7

    3. Conditions for Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

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      Pages 8-11

    4. Applications of the Hardy-Weinberg Law

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      Pages 12-17

    5. Snyder’s Ratios

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      Pages 18-22

  3. Constant Allele Frequencies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Multiple Alleles

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      Pages 24-26

    3. Separate Sexes

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      Pages 27-30

    4. Sex Linkage

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      Pages 31-34

    5. Other Phenomena Associated with Sex

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      Pages 35-40

    6. Linkage

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      Pages 41-47

    7. Recombination Equilibrium

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      Pages 48-52

    8. Polyploidy

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      Pages 53-56

  4. Systematic Forces

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Selection

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      Pages 58-63

    3. The General Selection Equation

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      Pages 64-68

    4. Equilibrium under Selection

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      Pages 69-73

    5. Mutation

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      Pages 74-78

    6. Interaction of Mutation with Selection

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      Pages 79-82
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About this book

I have for a number of years taught a course in population genetics for students interested in plant and animal breeding. The objective of the course has been to lay a foundation in population genetics for the concepts of quantitative genetics which are introduced in the last third of the course. I have not been able to find an appropriate text for this purpose. For a quarter of a century, Falconer's Introduction to Quantitative Genetics has been the standard, and excellent, text in that subject. For my purposes, however, this text is not sufficiently detailed in the population genetics basis for quantitative theory. A number of good texts in population genetics are available, of which Li's First Course in Population Genetics is didactically the best. But these texts are directed toward the genetics of natural populations, rather than domestic populations, breeding under human control. They also tend to treat quantitative genetics gingerly, if at all. I have therefore developed the present text from my teaching notes. The chapters of this book are labeled "Lectures". Each is intended to correspond approximately to the amount of material which can be covered in a 50-minute lecture. Divisions are, of course, dictated by the natural divisions of the subject matter, and the lectures are therefore not of uniform length. Nevertheless, in so far as possible, an attempt has been made to make the average length a lecture's worth.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Animal Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

    Donald P. Doolittle

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Population Genetics:

  • Book Subtitle: Basic Principles

  • Authors: Donald P. Doolittle

  • Series Title: Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71734-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-17326-7Published: 26 February 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-71734-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-4207

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 264

  • Topics: Ecology, Agriculture, Forestry, Cell Biology

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