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Managing Genetics for the Future
SYLLABUS

Instructor: Carol Beuchat PhD

Module 1 - Introduction to Managing Genetics for the Future
1.1 Course FAQs

Module 2 - What is the dog, and what is a breed?
2.1 What are Dogs?
 
Module 3 - Origin of breeds
3.1 Breed Origins
3.2 Is it a breed?
3.3 So, what is a breed?

Module 4 - Playing in the Gene Pool
4.1 What's in the gene pool?
4.2 How big is the gene pool?
4.3 Defining the gene pool

Module 5 - Inbreeding
5.1 Wright's Coefficient of Inbreeding
5.2 Simple calculations of COI
5.3 What does Coefficient of Inbreeding (F) mean?
5.4 The price of inbreeding
 
Module 6 - Breeding strategies
6.1 Inbreeding and mutations
6.2 Is that genetic disorder "a problem" in your breed?
6.3 Hardy-Weinberg Law
6.4 Applying Hardy-Weinberg to breeding strategies
6.5 Popular sires
6.6 Breeding strategies

Module 7 - Genetic drift
7.1 Genetic drift
7.2 More genetic drift

Module 8 - Assessing the genetic status of a breed
8.1 Inbreeding in humans, livestock, pets, and research animals (videos
8.2 Using the Inbreeding and Kinship Coefficients
8.3 Assessing the genetic health of breed
8.4 Mean kinship

Module 9 - Genetic diversity and effective population size
9.1 Population estimates of diversity
9.2 Effective population size
 
Module 10 - Genetics of dog breeds
10.1 Breed studies of genetics
10.2 Population genetics of the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
10.3 Population genetics of the Icelandic Sheepdog
10.4 Chinook genetics
10.5 Afghan genetics
10.6 What do the numbers mean?
10.7 What's the status of your breed?
 
Module 11 - Sustainable Breeding
11.1 Genetic management: basic strategy
11.2 Genetic management: breed examples
 
Module 12 - Tools for selection
12.1 Heritability
12.2 Breeding values
12.3 Estimated Breed Values Example
12.4 Do estimated breed values work?
12.5 Cornell's EBVs
 
Module 13 - Breeding for the future
12.2 Fundamental principles of genetic management
(P.S. 2015 Genetic analysis of UK breeds)


 


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