Science and Society in Dialogue About Marker Assisted Selection

Forum: dialogue about dialogue—cogeneration, research and science education

This forum discussion focuses on seven themes drawn from Sonya’’s fascinating paper: the terminology of ‘‘cogenerative dialogues,’’ the roles of participants and their power relations within such dialogues, the use of metaphor and analogy in the paper, science and science education for all students, the ways in which students’’ expectations about learning change in innovative classrooms, teache...

marker-assisted selection in sheep and goats

Immunity in Context: Science and Society in Dialogue

According to immunology’s prevailing paradigm, immunity is based on self/nonself discrimination and thus requires a construction of identity. Two orientations vie for dominance: The original conception, conceived in the context of infectious diseases, regards the organism as insular and autonomous, an entity that requires defense of its borders. An alternate view places the organism firmly in i...

Science and Society Public Dialogue in Scientific Research

Challenges and opportunities in mental health policy Towards a science-society? Science is by its very nature political. Scientific discoveries and inventions shape society and economy fundamentally, and scientists are cast as both saviours and wreckers in the popular imagination. Since the Luddites destroyed the power looms that began the industrial revolution, society at large has had an ambi...

Selection theory for marker-assisted backcrossing.

Marker-assisted backcrossing is routinely applied in breeding programs for gene introgression. While selection theory is the most important tool for the design of breeding programs for improvement of quantitative characters, no general selection theory is available for marker-assisted backcrossing. In this treatise, we develop a theory for marker-assisted selection for the proportion of the gen...