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Introduction to quantitative genetics
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The genetic constitution of a population: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium and changes in gene frequency: migration mutation, changes of variance, and heritability are studied.Abstract:
Part 1 Genetic constitution of a population: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Part 2 Changes in gene frequency: migration mutation. Part 3 Small populations - changes in gene frequency under simplified conditions. Part 4 Small populations - less simplified conditions. Part 5 Small populations - pedigreed populations and close inbreeding. Part 6 Continuous variation. Part 7 Values and means. Part 8 Variance. Part 9 Resemblance between relatives. Part 10 Heritability. Part 11 Selection - the response and its prediction. Part 12 Selection - the results of experiments. Part 13 Selection - information from relatives. Part 14 Inbreeding and crossbreeding - changes of mean value. Part 15 Inbreeding and crossbreeding - changes of variance. Part 16 Inbreeding and crossbreeding - applications. Part 17 Scale. Part 18 Threshold characters. Part 19 Correlated characters. Part 20 Metric characters under natural selection.read more
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Inbreeding depression and its evolutionary consequences
TL;DR: The evidence that the evolution of breeding systems of animals and plants has been significantly influenced by the occurrence of inbreeding depression is reviewed, and the contemporary genetic theory of inmarriage depression and heterosis and the experimental data concerning the strength of in breeding depression are considered.
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Unrepeatable repeatabilities: a common mistake
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TL;DR: The correct calculation of repeatability is outlined, a common mistake is pointed out, how the incorrectly calculated value relates to repeatable values is shown, and a method for checking published values and calculating approximate repeatability values from the F ratio is provided.
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Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution.
Denis Réale,Simon M. Reader,Simon M. Reader,Daniel Sol,Daniel Sol,Peter T. McDougall,Niels Jeroen Dingemanse +6 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that temperament can and should be studied within an evolutionary ecology framework and provided a terminology that could be used as a working tool for ecological studies of temperament, which includes five major temperament trait categories: shyness‐boldness, exploration‐avoidance, activity, sociability and aggressiveness.
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Estimating relatedness using genetic markers.
TL;DR: A new method is described for estimating genetic relatedness from genetic markers such as protein polymorphisms based on Grafen's (1985) relatedness coefficient, which eliminates a downward bias for small sample sizes and improves estimation of relatedness for subsets of population samples.
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