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Quantitative Genetics Armando Caballero Universidade de Vigo, Spain
This accessible and up-to-date text uses applied examples and model problems to enhance students’ understanding of the concepts and applications of quantitative genetics. It provides the most current and in-depth view of the field for researchers and professionals in genetics, genomics, plant and animal breeding, and conservation science. ‘Quantitative genetics as a scientific discipline isn’t dead just yet, despite predictions of its demise over many decades. In fact, it is very much alive in the genomics era, across a wide range of disciplines, including plant and animal breeding, evolutionary genetics and human (medical) genetics. Armando Caballero’s timely textbook, a translation and update from his Spanish version, combines a description of the theory and methods underlying quantitative trait variation in populations with data examples and applications from modern genome technologies. It is an excellent introduction to the field, and demonstrates once again how population and quantitative genetics theory has stood the test of time and is highly relevant today.’ Peter M. Visscher, University of Queensland ‘Armando Caballero’s work is a masterful tour through both evolutionary and applied quantitative genetics. It provides a fruitful and unusual blend of population and quantitative genetics, and it will be extremely useful for anyone who wants to learn more about either of these fields.’ Michael Whitlock, University of British Columbia 2020 244 x 170 mm 338pp 101 b/w illus. 43 tables 978-1-108-48141-0 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 978-1-108-72235-3 Paperback £29.99 / US$38.99 For all formats available, see
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