Four good introductions to animal breeding are D.S. Falconer and Trudy F.C. Mackay, Introduction to Quantitative Genetics, 4th ed. (1996); Richard M. Bourdon, Understanding Animal Breeding, 2nd ed. (2000); R.A. Mrode and R. Thompson, Linear Models for the Prediction of Animal Breeding Values, 2nd ed. (2005); and Wilson G. Pond and Alan W. Bell (eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Science (2005).
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