Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The history and evolution of the domestic fowl
- 2 The cellular organisation of genetic material
- 3 The transmission of inherited characters
- 4 Sex determination and sex-linked inheritance in the domestic fowl
- 5 Linkage and chromosome mapping
- 6 Genes controlling feathering and plumage colour
- 7 Muscle, nerve and skeleton
- 8 Lethal genes in domestic fowl
- 9 Quantitative genetics
- 10 Protein evolution and polymorphism
- 11 Immunogenetics of the domestic fowl
- 12 Gene cloning, sequencing and transfer in the domestic fowl
- APPENDIX I Linkage groups and the chromosome map in the domestic fowl
- APPENDIX II Oncogenes
- APPENDIX III The Chi squared (χ2) test
- APPENDIX IV One letter amino acid code
- APPENDIX V The genetic code
- Glossary
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The history and evolution of the domestic fowl
- 2 The cellular organisation of genetic material
- 3 The transmission of inherited characters
- 4 Sex determination and sex-linked inheritance in the domestic fowl
- 5 Linkage and chromosome mapping
- 6 Genes controlling feathering and plumage colour
- 7 Muscle, nerve and skeleton
- 8 Lethal genes in domestic fowl
- 9 Quantitative genetics
- 10 Protein evolution and polymorphism
- 11 Immunogenetics of the domestic fowl
- 12 Gene cloning, sequencing and transfer in the domestic fowl
- APPENDIX I Linkage groups and the chromosome map in the domestic fowl
- APPENDIX II Oncogenes
- APPENDIX III The Chi squared (χ2) test
- APPENDIX IV One letter amino acid code
- APPENDIX V The genetic code
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
It is over forty years since the publication of Hutt's classic text The Genetics of the Fowl. During that period there have been enormous advances in the understanding of genetics in general. With the advent of gene cloning these advances are likely to continue at an increased pace for at least the next decade. On a different level there have also been sweeping changes in the commercial rearing of the domestic fowl as broilers and layers. These changes have been in part attributable to the new strains that have been introduced as a result of research into breeding. An area that has changed least is the way in which the poultry fancier breeds for ‘perfection’ as he or she sees it. It is with these factors in mind that this book has been written. Whilst not aiming to produce an encyclopaedic work like that of Hutt's and the new multiauthor reference work Poultry Breeding and Genetics, edited by R.D. Crawford, it is intended that this book will provide both an introduction to, and a useful survey of, the recent developments in the genetics and evolution of the domestic fowl. There are some areas covered in Hutt's book that have changed little since 1950, particularly the ‘classical’ genetics of many of the physiological and anatomical characters.
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- Genetics and Evolution of the Domestic Fowl , pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991