Edited by
Georges Pelletier, INRAE, France.
ISBN : 9781789451672
Publication Date : November 2024
Hardcover 274 pp
165.00 USD
Co-publisher
The domestication of plants, animals and microorganisms has enabled the development of agriculture, animal husbandry, the processing of their products and, ultimately, civilizations.
The species concerned by domestication, the regions of the world where it could take place, the clues that enable us to identify wild ancestors, the particularly morphological or physiological properties that characterize it, the modified genes, the genetic exchanges that domesticated organisms maintained with their wild ancestors, and the consequences of the structuring of the species that resulted in animal breeds or plant varieties, are all questions that develop studies in the fields of archaeology, sociology, ecology and genetics.
Genetics of Domestications deals with the contribution of modern methods of genetic analysis and genomics to historical knowledge of domestications, their nature and diversity, based on examples of twelve species or groups of species.
1. Thousands of Years of Relationship between Man and Dog Revealed by Genomics, Morgane Ollivier.
2. Imprints of Domestication in the Sheep Genome, Charlotte Her and François Pompanon.
3. Humans and Pigs: Over Ten Thousand Years of Shared Evolution, Laurent Frantz.
4. The Domestication of the Wild Rabbit: Genetic and Genomic Elements, Hervé Garreau and Cécile Callou.
5. Domesticated Poultry: A History Illuminated by Genomics, Michèle Tixier-Boichard, Xavier Rognon and Bertrand Bed’hom.
6. Genetics of Fish Domestication in Aquaculture, Fabrice Teletchea.
7. The Domestication of Yeast, Jean-Luc Legras, Thibault Nidelet, Virginie Galeote and Delphine Sicard.
8. The Domestication of Oenococcus oeni: A Bacterium Crafted for Wine Production, Jana Rudolf, Marguerite Dols-Lafargue, Claire Le Henaff-Le Marrec and Patrick Lucas.
9. Tracing the Origins of Wheat Cultivation, Caroline Pont and Jérôme Salse.
10. A History of Cultivated Rice Genomics, Philippe Cubry, Mathias Lorrieux, François Sabot and Alain Ghesquière.
11. Grapevine Domestication and Selection, Patrice This, Thierry Lacombe and Cécile Marchal.
12. Tomato Domestication and Breeding: A Major Contribution from Wild Species, Mathilde Causse.
13. Mutagenesis and Accelerated Domestication, Georges Pelletier.
Georges Pelletier is Honorary Research Director at the INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement), France, where he specializes in plant genetics and biotechnology. His research focuses on DNA exchanges between mitochondrial genomes and genome-modification methods, including transgenesis, from both fundamental research and plant breeding applications.
