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Families, kinship and genetics

Martin Richards • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1996)

I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. Thomas Hardy , 1840–1928: Heredity. Introduction Genetics concerns families and kinship. ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511570049.014

Introduction to conservation genetics

Richard Frankham, Jonathan D. Ballou, David A. Briscoe • Choice Reviews Online (2002)

This impressive author team brings the wealth of advances in conservation genetics into the new edition of this introductory text, including new chapters on population genomics and genetic issues in introduced and invasive species. They con...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.40-1529

Introduction to Quantitative Genetics

S. P.B. • Poultry Science (1963)

Falconer, D. S., Introduction to Quantitative Genetics , The Ronald Press Company, New York. 364 pp. $6.00. The author’s aim is, “to provide an introductory textbook of quantitative genetics, with emphasis on general principles rather than ...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.3382/ps.0420547

Reproduction and the Reduction of Genetics

James R. Griesemer • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2000)

In this essay I develop a new, unified perspective on genetics, development, and reproduction. I suggest a heuristic use of theory reduction to address an issue of contemporary theoretical importance: the framing of a theory of developmenta...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511527296.013

The Genetics of Human Populations

A. J., Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Walter Fred Bodmer • Population (1972)

A spate of books has appeared in the last several years on population genetics. They range from Crow and Kimura's An Introduction to Population Genetics and Ewens's...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1529365

Principles of Population Genetics.

R. M. Cormack, Daniel L. Hartl, Andrew G. Clark • Biometrics (1990)

Genetic and Phenotypic Variation.- Organisation of Genetic Variation.- Random Genetic Drift.- Mutation and the Neutral Theory.- Darwinian Selection.- Inbreeding, Population Subdivision, and Migration.- Molecular Population Genetics.- Evolut...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2531471

Advances in genetics

M. Demerec, Ernst W. Caspari, John Marion Thoday, John G. Scandalios et al. • Advances in genetics (1947)

Advances in Genetics provides the latest information on the rapidly evolving field of genetics, presenting new medical breakthroughs that are occurring as a result of advances in our knowledge of the topic. The book continually publishes im...

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Forest genetics

• CABI eBooks (2007)

Abstract This book, which contains 20 chapters, integrates the varied subdisciplines of genetics and their applications in gene conservation, tree improvement and biotechnology. Topics covered include: genetic variation in natural forests, ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1079/9781845932855.0000

The Genetics of Schizophrenia

Patrick F. Sullivan • PLoS Medicine (2005)

Research into the etiology of schizophrenia, particularly the possible genetic basis, has never been as interesting and as provocative as in the past three years. Sullivan looks critically at the key research....

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020212 PMC: 1181880

New Patterns in Genetics and Development

C. H. Waddington • Columbia University Press eBooks (1962)

Looks at the impact of advances in genetics on our understanding of the development of multi-cellular organisms and also the older problem of morphogenesis -the appearance of organized structure within a range of sizes from the cellular org...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7312/wadd92142

Landscape Genetics

Rolf Holderegger, Helene H. Wagner • BioScience (2008)

Landscape genetics is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field that integrates approaches from population genetics and landscape ecology. In the context of habitat fragmentation, the current focus of landscape genetics is on assessing the...

OPENALEX other-oa DOI: https://doi.org/10.1641/b580306