Plant Breeding Reviews, Part 2: Long-term Selection: Crops, Animals, and Bacteria (Volume 24)

PLANT BREEDING REVIEWS, Volume 24, Part 2: Long-term Selection: Crops, Animals, and Bacteria......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 17
II. THE DOMESTICATION PROCESS......Page 18
III. CENTERS OF AGRICULTURAL ORIGINS......Page 23
IV. TIME FRAME OF DOMESTICATION......Page 30
V. THE DOMESTICATION SYNDROME......Page 34
VI. INHERITANCE AND MOLECULAR BASIS OF THE DOMESTICATION SYNDROME......Page 38
VII. GENETIC BOTTLENECKS......Page 45
VIII. IS THERE A POTENTIAL FOR DOMESTICATION AMONG PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES?......Page 47
IX. SUMMARY......Page 52
LITERATURE CITED......Page 53
2: Long-term Selection in Plants in the Developing World......Page 61
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 62
II. LONG-TERM BREEDING/SELECTION PROGRAMS......Page 69
III. CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS......Page 95
LITERATURE CITED......Page 98
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 105
II. METHODOLOGY......Page 106
III. LONG-TERM TRENDS......Page 107
IV. CAUSES OF INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY......Page 119
V. LONG-TERM SELECTION AND CROP PRODUCTIVITY......Page 121
LITERATURE CITED......Page 123
4: Long-term Selection in a Commercial Hybrid Maize Breeding Program......Page 125
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 126
II. RESULTS......Page 130
III. POSTULATED CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF SEQUENTIAL CHANGES IN HYBRID PERFORMANCE......Page 157
IV. SUMMARY, COMMENTS, AND PREDICTIONS......Page 164
LITERATURE CITED......Page 165
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 169
II. MATERIALS......Page 171
III. METHODS......Page 172
IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION......Page 174
LITERATURE CITED......Page 183
6: Inferences on the Genetics of Quantitative Traits from Long-term Selection in Laboratory and Domestic Animals......Page 185
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 186
II. FACTORS AFFECTING RESPONSE IN SELECTION EXPERIMENTS......Page 187
III. LONG-TERM SELECTION IN COMMERCIAL LIVESTOCK......Page 192
IV. LONG-TERM LABORATORY SELECTION EXPERIMENTS: POULTRY......Page 200
V. LONG-TERM SELECTION EXPERIMENTS ON GROWTH IN LABORATORY MICE......Page 207
VI. INFERENCES......Page 219
LITERATURE CITED......Page 223
7: Long-term Selection for Pupal Weight in Tribolium castaneum......Page 227
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 228
II. METHODS AND MATERIALS......Page 229
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION......Page 232
IV. CONCLUSIONS......Page 239
LITERATURE CITED......Page 240
8: Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during a 20,000-Generation Experiment with the Bacterium Escherichia coli......Page 241
I. INTRODUCTION......Page 242
II. PHENOTYPIC AND GENOMIC EVOLUTION......Page 253
III. CONCLUSIONS......Page 278
LITERATURE CITED......Page 279
Subject Index......Page 283
Cumulative Subject Index......Page 285
Cumulative Contributor Index......Page 303