No field of science has changed more, or changed the world more, in the last 50 years than genetics – the study of how our physical and behavioural traits are inherited. These experiments illuminated ...

This eBook includes some of our key pieces that examine prokaryotic genetics and the important concepts we can learn by studying these organisms. Citation: Intro to Microbial Genetics. Cambridge, MA: ...

Basic concepts in population genetics, including nucleotide diversity, random genetic drift, effective population size, coalescent theory, time to common ancestor, site frequency spectrum, linkage ...

Basic concepts in quantitative genetics, including Mendelian genetics, gene action (additive, dominant, recessive), heritability, liability threshold model, means, variances, structure of DNA, types ...

These three books attempt to solve the problem of disseminating Information in the rapidly changing fields of genetics and cytology. They do so with varying success. "Advances in Genetics"is a notable ...

Part One. The basics of population genetics -- Part Two. Complex genetic systems -- Part Three. Special topics in evolution -- Part Four. Evolutionary ecology of single populations -- Part Five.