Quantitative Genetics

An up-to-date, accessible guide to the main concepts and applications of quantitative genetics.

Armando Caballero (Author)

9781108481410, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 April 2020

338 pages, 101 b/w illus. 43 tables
25 x 17.4 x 1.9 cm, 0.79 kg

'As the field within genetics having arguably the deepest history, quantitative genetics continues as a lively endeavour advancing understanding of the inheritance and change of traits that are continuous in their distributions and complex in the genetic and environmental influences on them. I welcome Caballero's text for new generations of students coming up to speed in this important and challenging field. The problems and questions concluding each chapter will especially aid them in testing their growing understanding. This text will also serve as a valuable resource for established practitioners of quantitative genetics.' Ruth G. Shaw, University of Minnesota

Quantitative genetics is the study of continuously varying traits which make up the majority of biological attributes of evolutionary and commercial interest. This book provides a much-needed up-to-date, in-depth yet accessible text for the field. In lucid language, the author guides readers through the main concepts of population and quantitative genetics and their applications. It is written to be approachable to even those without a strong mathematical background, including applied examples, a glossary of key terms, and problems and solutions to support students in grasping important theoretical developments and their relevance to real-world biology. An engaging, must-have textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. Given its applied focus, it also equips researchers in genetics, genomics, evolutionary biology, animal and plant breeding, and conservation genetics with the understanding and tools for genetic improvement, comprehension of the genetic basis of human diseases, and conservation of biological resources.

Preface
Preface to the Spanish version
1. Continuous variation
2. Forces of change in the allele frequencies
3. Components of phenotypic values and variances
4. Inbreeding and coancestry
5. Effective population size
6. Estimation of genetic values, variances and covariances
7. Mutation
8. Consequences of inbreeding
9. Artificial selection
10. Natural selection
11. Genomic analysis of quantitative traits
Solution to the problems and self-assessment questions
Glossary
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Genetics [non-medical PSAK], Evolution [PSAJ], Probability & statistics [PBT]