Genetic Prehistory in Selective Breeding
A Prelude to Mendel
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 July 2001
- ISBN 9780198505846
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages342 pages
- Size 242x161x23 mm
- Weight 715 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 halftones, 1 table, 4 maps and 11 line drawings 0
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Short description:
This is a history of how sheep breeding contributed to knowledge of heredity, and how the theory was vigorously pursued during the early Nineteenth Century in Brno, where Mendel defined the basis of genetics in 1866. This original and perceptive work is rich in previously unpublished detail.
MoreLong description:
Before Mendel, who came closest to the truth about heredity? This book examines the activities of sheep breeders able to transform the appearance and qualities of their stock by combining different traits of body or wool into new patterns. Exploiting what were then untried procedures - individual trait selection, very close inbreeding and progeny testing - they demonstrated inheritance from both sexes and showed how it could be stabilised. Major advances in breeding are associated with the English farmer Robert Bakewell (1725-1795). By the following century, when the same procedures had been established at breeding centres in central Europe, theory as well as practice became the subject of wider attention. In the Brno Sheep Breeders' Society, discussions of patterns of heredity finally gave way to the physiological question, 'What is inherited and how?' The question was posed by Cyrill Napp, abbot of the monastery to which Mendel was admitted six years later.
This is a very valuable book analysing the period of animal breeding, especially sheep, before the discovering of heredity laws by Gregor Mendel.
Table of Contents:
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
The elusive law
The fleeces of Spain
Sheep breeding sets new standards
Bakewell's new system
Bakewell becomes a celebrity
Merinos in Sweden, France and Great Britain
Merinos in German-speaking countries and Australia
Ferdinand Geisslern, the Moravian Bakewell
From breeding principles to genetic laws
The sheep breeders' legacy to Mendel
Overview
References
Index
