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Genetical Research EDITORIAL BOARD HIROSHI AKASHI NICK H. BARTON PIERRE CAPY BRIAN CHARLESWORTH RICHARD FRANKHAM MICHEL GEORGES JODY HEY IAN J. JACKSON ALEX KONDRASHOV SERGEY NUZHDIN H. ALLEN ORR LINDA PARTRIDGE PATRICK PHILLIPS FRANCESCO SALAMINI J. BRUCE WALSH BRUCE S. WEIR EXECUTIVE EDITORS WILLIAM G. HILL DAVID J. FINNEGAN TRUDY F.C. MACKAY FOUNDING EDITOR ERIC C. REEVE Volume 83 2004 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGI The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road. Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcon 13, 28014 Madrid. Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa © Cambridge University Press. 2004 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Contents No. 1 (February 2004) REVIEW ROTHSCHILD, M. F. Porcine genomics delivers new tools and results: This little piggy did more than just go to market RESEARCH PAPERS HOULE, D. and NUZHDIN, S. V. Mutation accumulation and the effect of copia insertions in Drosophila melanogaster SCHUG, M. D., REGULSKI, E. E., PEARCE, A. and SMITH, S. G. Isolation and characterization of dinucleotide repeat microsatellites in Drosophila ananassae INGVARSSON, P. K. Population subdivision and the Hudson-Kreitman-Aguade test: testing for deviations from the neutral model in organelle genomes ABDALLAH, J. M., MANGIN, B., GOFFINET, B., CLERCO-AYROLLES, C. and PEREZ-ENCISO, M. A comparison between methods for linkage disequilibrium fine mapping of quantitative trait loci LUO, Z. W. and MA, L. An improved formulation of marker heterozygosity 1n recurrent selection and backcross schemes AVENDANO, S., WOOLLIAMS, J. A. dnd VILLANUEVA, B. Mendelian sampling terms as a selective advantage in optimum breeding schemes with restrictions on the rate of inbreeding BOOK REVIEWS Evolution. 3rd Edition. M. Ridley N. Colegrave George Beadle, An Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century. P. Berg and M. Singer B. Charlesworth Vertebrate Sex Chromosomes. Ed. N. Takagi M. Lyon BOOKS RECEIVED No. 2 (April 2004) HALL, L. E.. ALEXANDER, S. J.. CHANG, M., WOODLING, N.S. and YEDVOBNICK, B. An EP overexpression screen for genetic modifiers of Notch pathway function in Drosophila melanogaster " MATSUDA, M. and TOBARI, Y. N. Genetic analyses of several Drosophila ananassae-complex species show a low-frequency major gene for parthenogenesis that maps to chromosome 2 BARTOLOME, C. and MASIDE, X. The lack of recombination drives the fixation of transposable elements on the fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster TAYLOR, A. C., COWAN, P. E., FRICKE, B. L.,. GEDDES, S., HANSEN, B. D., LAM, M. and COOPER, D. W. High microsatellite diversity and differential structuring among populations of the introduced common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula, in New Zealand | HERNANDEZ-SANCHEZ, J., HALEY, C. S. and WOOLLIAMS, J. A. On the prediction of simultaneous inbreeding coefficients at multiple loci HILL, W. G. and ZHANG, x.-S. Effects on phenotypic variability of directional selection arising through genetic differences in residual variability BROWN, B. W. Power calculations for the transmission/disequilibrium and affected sib pair tests using elementary probability methods ZENG, W., GHOSH, S. and L1, B. A blocking Gibbs sampling method to detect major genes with phenotypic data from a diallel mating Contents BOOK REVIEWS Reflections of Our Past: How human history ts revealed in our genes. J. H. Relethford C. Tyler-Smith Genetics of Apoptosis. Ed. S. Grimm L. M. Martins BOOKS RECEIVED No. 3 (June 2004) MAO, Y. and XU, 8S. Mapping QTLs for traits measured as percentages BALARESQUE, P., TOUPANCE, B., LLUIS, Q.-M., CROUAU-ROY, B. and HEYER, E. Sex-specific selection on the human X-chromosome’ HONEYCUTT, E. and GIBSON, G. Use of regression methods to identify motifs that modulate germline transcription in Drosophila melanogaster BERTICAT, C., DURON, O., HEYSE, D. and RAYMOND, M. Insecticide resistance genes confer a predation cost on mosquitoes, Culex pipiens CARLBORG, 0., HOCKING, P. M., BURT, D. W. and HALEY, C. S. Simultaneous mapping of epistatic QTL in chickens reveals clusters of QTL pairs with similar genetic effects on growth DE KONING, D. J., HALEY, C. S., WINDSOR, D., HOCKING, P. M., GRIFFIN, H., MORRIS, A., VINCENT, J. and BURT, D. w. Segregation of QTL for production traits in commercial meat-type chickens BOOK REVIEWS Introduction to Conservation Genetics. R. Frankham, J. D. Ballou and D. A. Briscoe J. Pemberton DNA: Changing Science and Society. Ed. T. Krude W. G. Hill BOOKS RECEIVED INDEX 3i se. s. - <