1. Andersson, L. Genetic dissection of phenotypic diversity in farm animals. Nature Rev. Genet. 2, 130–138 (2001).This paper reviews molecular methods and strategies to detect QTL in livestock, and provides examples.
2. Mauricio, R. Mapping quantitative loci in plants: uses and caveats for evolutionary biology. Nature Rev. Genet. 2, 370–381 (2001).
3. Falconer, D. S. & Mackay, T. F. C. Introduction to Quantitative Genetics (Long‐man, Harlow, UK, 1996).A standard textbook in quantitative genetics that describes much of the theoretical basis of quantitative genetic selection, including MAS.
4. Lynch, M. & Walsh, B. Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits (Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1998).An up-to-date and complete review of traditional and modern methods to investigate the variability of quantitative traits, including QTL detection and mapping.
5. Bulmer, M. G. The Mathematical Theory of Quantitative Genetics (Clarendon, Oxford, 1980).