About the Book: Genetics of Livestock Population
The book entitled Genetics of Livestock Population has been divided in 3 parts
comprising 27 chapters. The first part of 13 chapters has been devoted to the
genetic structure of population in equilibrium state for different genetic
systems and the changes occurred under the influence of evolutionary forces,
population size and mating systems for qualitative characters. The second part
comprises 10 chapters covering the partitioning of phenotypic value, variance
and covariance of quantitative characters in to different components attributed
to additive and non-additive genetic effects. The last part of 4 chapters of the
book deal with the biometrical techniques viz. univariate,