A short critical history of the application of genomics to animal breeding

Two scientific schools have been in coexistence from the beginning of genetics, one of them searching for factors of inheritance and the other one applying biometrical models to study the relationships between relatives. With the development of molecular genetics, the possibilities of detecting genes having a noticeable effect in traits augmented. Some genes with large or medium effects were localized in animals, although the most common result was to detect markers linked to these genes, allowing the possibility of assisting selection programs with markers. When a large amount of simple and inexpensive markers were available, the SNPs, new possibilities were opened since they did not need the presence of genes of large or medium effect controlling a trait, because the whole genome was scanned. Using a large amount of SNPs permits having a prediction of the breeding value at birth accurate enough to be used in some cases, like dairy cattle, to halve its generation interval. In other animal breeding programs, the implementation of genomic selection is less clear and the way in which it can be useful should be carefully studied. The need for large populations for associating phenotypic data and markers, plus the need for repeating the process continuously, complicates its application in some cases. The implementation of the information provided by the SNPs in current genetic programs has led to the development of complex statistical tools, joining the efforts of the two schools, factorial and biometrical, that nowadays work closely related.

Building a retrospective collection in pharmacy: a brief history of the literature with some considerations for U.S. health sciences library professionals

This paper argues that historical works in pharmacy are important tools for the clinician as well as the historian. With this as its operative premise, delineating the tripartite aspects of pharmacy as a business enterprise, a science, and a profession provides a conceptual framework for primary and secondary resource collecting. A brief history and guide to those materials most essential to a historical collection in pharmacy follows. Issues such as availability and cost are discussed and summarized in checklist form. In addition, a glossary of important terms is provided as well as a list of all the major U.S. dispensatories and their various editions. This paper is intended to serve as a resource for those interested in collecting historical materials in pharmacy and pharmaco-therapeutics as well as provide a history that gives context to these classics in the field. This should provide a rationale for selective retrospective collection development in pharmacy.

The current challenges of Color Physics and Chemistry

Day of Chemistry, Invited conference, San Alberto Magno 2014

Evolutionary history of the recruitment of conserved developmental genes in association to the formation and diversification of a novel trait

The origin and modification of novel traits are important aspects of biological diversification. Studies combining concepts and approaches of developmental genetics and evolutionary biology have uncovered many examples of the recruitment, or co-option, of genes conserved across lineages for the formation of novel, lineage-restricted traits. However, little is known about the evolutionary history of the recruitment of those genes, and of the relationship between them -for example, whether the co-option involves whole or parts of existing networks, or whether it occurs by redeployment of individual genes with de novo rewiring. We use a model novel trait, color pattern elements on butterfly wings called eyespots, to explore these questions. Eyespots have greatly diversified under natural and sexual selection, and their formation involves genetic circuitries shared across insects.

The musical scale of the Arabs. Medieval organ pipes and their bearing on the history of the scale. The natural diatonic scale.

From the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, v. 48, 1899.

Natural history of Selborne & observations on nature; with text & new letters of the Buckland ed.;

Mode of access: Internet.

A history of women's education in the United States.

Includes bibliography.

The light of the Cross in the Twentieth Century : the influence of the Church on modern civilization, her treatment of the great moral and social problems of our time, by master minds, the foundations, history and progress of her great educational institutions in the United States, her great religious orders of men and women for spreading the Gospel and teaching secular and religious knowledge, the history of the organization, development and aims of the great Catholic fraternal societies of the United States and their national federation with many other important subjects, the teachings of the Church made manifest to the modern mind /

Contents: v. 3. The glorious teachings of our holy religion

Goldsmith's History of the earth, and animated nature. : With copious notes, containing all the new discoveries in the phenomena of nature, interspersed with numerous anecdotes of the lives, manners, and instinct of the animal kingdom ; selected from the most authentic sources /

Added engraved title pages

American ornithology; or, The natural history of the birds of the United States: illustrated with plates, engraved and coloured from original drawings taken from nature. With a sketch of the author's life,

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A dissertation on the nature and cure of the venereal disease : : wherein the Pathological History of that Disorder is fully considered /

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The present state of Europe : explaining the interests, connections, political and commercial views of its several powers : comprehending also, a clear and concise history of each country, so far as to shew the nature of their present constitutions.

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Value to history of the study of the fine arts,

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A history of the Daubeny laboratory, Magdalen college, Oxford. To which is appended a list of the writings of Dr. Daubeny, and a register of names of persons who have attended the chemical lectures of Dr. Daubeny from 1822 to 1867, as well as of those who have received instruction in the laboratory up to the present time.

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