| Description |
viii, 356 pages : illustrations (part color), map. ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Edition for 1982 published under title: Genetics and horse breeding. |
|
Imprint supplied from label mounted on verso of t.p. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 343-349. |
| Contents |
Ancestry -- Foundation breeds -- Modern breeds -- Color registries -- Reproduction -- Foaling -- The female reproductive system -- Hormone therapy -- The time of breeding -- The male reproductive system -- Artificial insemination -- Fertilization -- Pregnancy diagnosis -- Embryology -- Cytogenetics -- Molecular genetics -- Meiosis -- Chromosomes of the equine -- Chromosome anomalies -- Maternal inheritance -- Qualitative inheritance -- The six fundamental types of mating -- Independent inheritance -- Probability and predictions -- Inheritance and sex -- Quantitative inheritance -- Gene interactions -- Multiple factors -- Multiple alleles -- Modifying genes -- Linkage -- Pleiotropic effects -- Heredity and the environment -- Interitance of fertility level -- Inheritance of growth rate and body size -- Nutrition -- Breeding systems -- Purebred breeding systems -- Prepotency -- Heterosis -- Computing the amount of inbreeding -- Non-purebred systems -- Developing the breeding program -- Selection -- Factors influencing rate of progress from selection -- Useful aids in selection -- Family selection -- Bringing a desirable trait into a herd -- Important characters in a selection program -- Performance indexes -- Keeping records -- Heritability -- Efficiency of selection methods -- Developmental abnormalities -- Biochemical polymorphism -- Hemoglobin -- Serum proteins -- Selection against abnormalities -- Inherited lethals -- Inherited unsoundness -- Color inheritance -- The migration and development of the melanocyte -- The development and migration of the melanosome -- Mode of gene action -- Cellular mechanisms of the color genes in the horse -- The appaloosa patterns -- Breeding for color in the appaloosa -- Genetics of the horse -- The mode of inheritance -- Breeding goals -- Selection priorities -- Heterosis versus prepotency |
| Subject |
Horses -- Breeding.
|
|
Horses -- Breeding. |
|
Horses -- Genetics.
|
|
Horses -- Genetics. |
|
Horses. |
| Added Author |
Bogart, Ralph, 1908-
|
|
