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Adaptation and fitness in animal populations

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Defining Fitness in Natural and Domesticated Populations
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    Chapter 2 Genetic Architecture of Reproductive Fitness and its Consequences
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    Chapter 3 Fitness Traits in Animal Breeding Programs
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    Chapter 4 Discussion
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    Chapter 5 Maintaining Genetic Variation in Fitness
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    Chapter 6 Spherical Cows Grazing in Flatland: Constraints to Selection and Adaptation
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    Chapter 7 Maintaining Fitness by Within Breed Selection
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    Chapter 8 Discussion
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    Chapter 9 Some Evolutionary Consequences of Niche Construction with Genotype-Environment Interaction
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    Chapter 10 Genotype by Environment Interaction in Farm Animals
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    Chapter 11 Drosophila and Selection in Nature: From Laboratory Fitness Components to Field Assessments
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    Chapter 12 Discussion
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    Chapter 13 Strategies to Exploit Genetic Variation While Maintaining Diversity
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    Chapter 14 Managing Genetic Diversity, Fitness and Adaptation of Farm Animal Genetic Resources
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    Chapter 15 Livestock Genetic Resources: Preserving Genetic Adaptations for Future Use
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    Chapter 16 Discussion
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    Chapter 17 Concluding Summary
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    Chapter 18 Stuart Barker’s Contributions to Population Genetics and Animal Breeding: Exploring Fitness, Evolution and Animal Genetics
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Chapter title
Spherical Cows Grazing in Flatland: Constraints to Selection and Adaptation
Chapter number 6
Book title
Adaptation and Fitness in Animal Populations
Published by
Springer Netherlands, July 2015
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9005-9_6
Book ISBNs
978-1-4020-9004-2, 978-1-4020-9005-9
Authors

Mark Blows, Bruce Walsh

Editors

Julius van der Werf, Hans-Ulrich Graser, Richard Frankham, Cedric Gondro

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 4%
United States 2 4%
Brazil 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
France 1 2%
Unknown 40 85%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 32%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 28%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 11%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 2 4%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 28 60%
Environmental Science 4 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 9%
Mathematics 3 6%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 4 9%